So far I have not received even one political ad in my mailbox. I live in an apartment complex and there are no signs on patio doors either.

We do not have recycling (private homes do have recycling though) but we do have a valet trash service that picks up from right outside my patio 5 days a week so trash doesn't accumulate.

Ahem. I am in Pennsylvania and every day, we get multiple political ads. I mean, like easily 5 or 6 daily. National, state, and local.

Recycling here they come.

I suggest you save your carbon footprint and just put them all with the other refuse.

I also get lots of packages. I break the boxes down and lay them in my garden before i spread mulch. Its the only thing that has controlled the grass that loves to invade it.

Rose, good for you! I agree, best to wait and make a trip after the campaign debris.

Amylou, that sounds like a good idea, but what about the dye in the paperboard?

Nothing is quite perfect.

I use cardboard in my gardening areas as well.

Those that I don't use, I have a co-worker that sells books online, and I take him a bunch of boxes and those "bag" mailers.

We get several of the political ads every day -- not only in our name, but the people that used to live here before us.

17 yrs ago!!!!!

There’s not much in my mailbox, but then there is no local brouhaha to vote on. My text message spam account is filling up. And when I watch Jeopardy!, well, thank goodness for the mute button: So many ads for offices that will not be on the ballot at my polling place. Our local tv channels cover a very wide market.

I wonder if you could find someone to take them off your hands? I found someone locally who has an ebay shop so she is happy to stop by as needed and take our boxes away. I am happy to know they are getting at least two uses before they are recycled or whatever.

We have gotten a minimum of five political ads every single day for one month and many times more. Sucks to live in PA now.

Between the political ads and the medicare ads bombarding us, we get plenty of mail this time of year, and especially THIS year. I think the medicare bombardment will end in another 6 weeks or so.

Petalique, I do the same as amylou. Brown cardboard boxes without a lot of excess ink doesn’t bother me in the least. i don’t use heavily inked boxes and those go in the trash or recycle bin we have available a couple of miles from our house (even in our rural area). Many of the boxes have bio-based ink but a lot of them have plasticizers/plastics in the printing surface that could possibly (I’ll stress possibly here) survive composting and be take up by the plants. Whether this actually has an appreciable negative effect on the plants, or downstream in the food chain isn't currently known as far as I understand. I use my boxes between rows and plants, not in direct contact with edibles.

The trouble with the big recycle bins is that some use the bins for their home trash which is ridiculous given we have regular garbage pickup even on most holidays.

Once at the recycle bins, I saw a woman putting plastic bagfuls of something in the dumpster. I don't know what made me even say something, but I asked it she knew there wasn't suppose to be plastic bags in there. She responded, "Yeah, yeah, rules for everything now days". and left.

Some political ads come in the form of large post cards that are plastic coated. We cannot recycle those with a plastic coating.

Lots of people in my area post their cardboard boxes on the freecycle type sites on Facebook. People are always looking for free boxes for moving.

Some good ideas. I was wondering if the ink was toxic. I have used parts of large appliance cardboard in my garden.

I recently read that cardboard and paperboard is considered valuable/ worthy recycling material. Too bad that some is coated with plastic. Plastic is a fantastic material, but it gets used for some unfortunate applications and contributes to a lot of litter and nano-clutter.

You might find someone else that wants the cardboard - for moving, mailing, or even feeding their indoor worm composter. Maybe put an ad on Facebook, in a community paper, or in a community center or library.

It's so bad... I have out of town guests. We were talking politics (they want to make sure to make it home so they can vote, for instance), someone knocked on the door, and I said speaking of politics! When I open the door sure enough, it was a campaigner. I simply said "I've already voted!". He said great! And left. She wanted to know how I knew, I said because those are the only people knockng (incessantly!!!!) right now. 🙄

Are there others nearby with similar operations who might be interested in collecting the ones for reuse, recycle or waste, Rose?

Maybe take turns collecting the stuff and hauling to the nearby township, making fewer trips for each, while possibly getting a more eenenvenvienvirenviroenvironenvironmenvironmeenvironmenenvironmentenvironmentaenvironmentalenvironmentall environmentally effective job done, while cheaper for both gas and time for each.

ole joyful

Oh, brother/bother!!! Try to make a simple amendment in this place .... and the above is what routinely happens (the above being some more extreme than usual).

(More of the same in this addition ... but I cleaned the repetitions, this time).

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LOL o j

I have lots and lots of political ads to recycle, along with clothing catalogs and boxes and such. I am very fortunate in that we have curbside recycling every week. I have a very large bin on wheels that I only put out every 3 weeks or so because it takes awhile to get enough to warrant putting it out. I could do it every week but that seems unnecessary.

The lane is about 500 feet long and we have two tubs on wheels for recycle (the larger one) and waste. We usually make the trip very 3 or so weeks, same reason.

My landlord has a pile where he drops waste for occasional burning. I get cream and some other things in cardboard cartons with printed coating, not plastic, I think, and I wonder whether burning them is less environmentally damaging than putting them into the trash can. Milk in three small plastic bags inside another plastic bag and I don't think it wise to burn them, or the trays of cookies lacking a number, or other plastic stuff. _______

Frustration - when I tap a wrong letter and try to amend, I get part of the word reduplicated, and if I try it firtffirtfurtfirtffirtfurther back, sometimes a word reduplicated up through two or tththrthrethree lines!

And if I try to do that without tapping "space" bar - the word disappears.

Plus ... have to watch cursor why ... oh, like a hawk, for it likes to relocate to another location whenever it chooses!

Why ... oh WHY! ... do I cchchochopchopschocchchochopchopschoose to talk in this place???

ole jjojoyful (remembered to "space"