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A Slightly Indelicate Question

Happy New Year Everybody!

I’ve been staying at home, drinking hot tea, watching movies, reading books, and watching the snow from inside my apartment.

However, I do have an indelicate question that might offend some of your sensibilities—so if you don’t want to know the question, don’t continue reading…

So here’s my question: I’ve been getting over a nasty cold, using a lot of Taschentücher—tissue. Given that I’m using the tissue, should I recycle it, or should I throw it away? It makes no difference to me because the trash can is right next to a paper recycling bin.

13 comments to A Slightly Indelicate Question

  • Tough call. It’s paper, right? But with biological additive. I’m always torn by things like that. And light bulbs. Or envelopes where you can’t (easily) separate the clear plastic window from the paper.

  • Would you give Monica’s blue dress to the Goodwill?

  • I throw them in the biodegradable. Our little Heidelberg trash guide says that paper towels and newspapers used as wrapping can go in there so seems tissues ought to be fine too.

  • This is Germany, so you know that tissues have to be separated out, don’t you? Normal sniffles in one bin, morning horkers in another, um… I think I’ll stop there.

    HNY 2U2 BTW.

  • Burn them. That would be nice.

  • G

    I actually think that it must be bio, since paper twoels soiled by food can be added to bio. Definitely not paper, though.
    Feel better!

  • disenchanted

    Ah, this is why I have a hankie. 😀

  • Reko

    You should donate the used Tempos to the National Institutes of Health.

  • @cliff1976: The envelopes with windows have always flummoxed me. I hate ripping them out.

    @CQ: Are you suggesting my snot filled tissues are worth saving?!

    @CN: Thanks! That seems reasonable to me…

    @ian: Errr… dividing the snot, eh? That’s pretty snotty…

    @headbang8: Can I borrow your fireplace?

    @G: Thanks! I’m almost back to 100% — my cold was at its worst between about 8 and 4pm on the 22nd whilst I was in Bristol… it made for a bad trip, in some parts, whilst in Britain. In particular flying was awful.

    @disenchanted: I much prefer tissue… hankies are… yeech.

    @Reko: I believe Deutsch Post won’t accept the package. Perhaps you could carry them to Atlanta to me?

  • I think I read on Christina G’s blog that it was better to put the tissues in the normal trash for “hygenic reasons”.
    Personally I put them in the toilet. Let the water department deal with them.

  • @TQE: Since it’s you… I suppose it’s worth saving. After all, you’re destined for greatness, and stuff like that will sell on eBay for ginormous amounts of cash once you become famous.

  • jen

    i don’t know how to answer that question. tell me, do your boogers make a picture of the virgin mary? if so, you could probably sell it on e-bay.

  • @Snooker: Hmmm… like bell peppers growing legs are all that hygienic. I imagine that in the process of turning into mulch, everything is gross for awhile.

    @CQ: Err….

    @jen: Maybe I should make booger art!