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lowri

Joined: 18 Oct 2006
Posts: 1322
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 19 2:02 pm Post subject: How do I dispose of used paper tissues?

As our local council (Ceredigion) is rejigging its waste collection, and there are 21 pages of an A to Z of items suitable or otherwise on their website, I went through it for want of anything better to do on a wet Monday afternoon, and have learned the odd thing I didn't know, ie You can put polystyrene in the recycling bag, but I couldn't find "How to dispose of used paper handkerchiefs".
I have always burned them, after all you burn firewood. I don't fancy composting them as germs can do funny things, and having an elderly and from time to time temperamental septic tank, I try not to flush them. I expect the obvious answer is to go back to using cotton handkerchiefs only; I do have a good supply and a boiling saucepan fit for purpose. Not a bad thing to do.
What do other people do? Use their sleeve in the time-honoured way?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 19 3:23 pm Post subject:
I bin them, it's impossible to buy tissues that don't have aloe or some other crap coating. It is no longer a straight paper product. And, as mochyn and I were discussing on Saturday what is the actual purpose of the effing plastic insert in the opening? To keep them fresh????

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 19 5:50 pm Post subject:
Burn them.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 19 7:46 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

I bin them, it's impossible to buy tissues that don't have aloe or some other crap coating. It is no longer a straight paper product.

And, as mochyn and I were discussing on Saturday what is the actual purpose of the effing plastic insert in the opening? To keep them fresh????

To think, I missed out on that.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 19 8:18 pm Post subject:
You could stockpile them, like King of the Golden River, awaiting the time when somebody discovers a process for extracting silver from sn*t! Henry

lowri

Joined: 18 Oct 2006
Posts: 1322
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 19 9:20 pm Post subject:
Hand me the matches! Thanks, all!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 19 9:32 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

tahir wrote:

To think, I missed out on that.

Yep it was some party

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15985

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 19 6:39 am Post subject:

I buy tissues in cardboard boxes with a cardboard insert, so all the card goes in the recycle bin. I flush them down the toilet when I have a cold, but the rest of the time they usually get composted. I don't think the ones I get (Kleenex for men) have any additives, they seem to be all paper unless they have some plastic in them. By the way I sometimes seem to shred them in my pocket, they seem to be all paper.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 19 7:51 am Post subject:
Our youngest always puts them in for a wash, with all the other clothing.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 19 2:36 pm Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

Our youngest always puts them in for a wash, with all the other clothing.

The moral of that is - don't let anyone put anything in the washing machine who can't be relied upon to exercise proper quality control.

Tissues are a nuisance, but not nearly as bad as yellow felt tip pens, unless you are happy with pale yellow y-fronts!

Henry

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 19 5:36 pm Post subject:

buzzy wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

Our youngest always puts them in for a wash, with all the other clothing.

Henry

That’s one hell of an excuse. Well done.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15985

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 19 6:43 am Post subject:
I do sometimes make a mistake and leave a tissue in a pocket, but not very often. When son was small we used to do chromatography with felt tip pens on filter paper (coffee filters work) to see the colours that they have in each pen. Black gives an amazing number of different ones. Perhaps you were lucky it was yellow and not black or you may have ended up with psychedelic underpants.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 19 8:59 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

buzzy wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

Our youngest always puts them in for a wash, with all the other clothing.

Henry

That’s one hell of an excuse. Well done.

Tan and taupe only for me Buzzy.

baldybloke

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1388
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 19 5:51 pm Post subject:
I still use handkerchiefs and when I have man flu I use toilet tissue and flush it away.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15985

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 19 6:51 am Post subject:
I regret to say that I hate handkerchiefs. Memories of Mum boiling them up in a special pot before washing them. Urghhh!

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