<p>I saved all the mail I got from colleges over the past few years. Now I'm a senior accepted to my ED school, and I have over 50 pounds of college mailings in a box in my closet. The postcards and letters I'll just recycle, but there are a lot of viewbooks and more substantive material as well. I don't want to chuck 'em if they might be useful to someone else, but I'm not sure where they'd be wanted. How are other people handling this?</p>
<p>I just recycle almost everything that I can. My sister gave all of her view books to her counselor's office and like an afterschool tutoring place.</p>
<p>Yeah, give them to your high school/library.</p>
<p>Make it into a compost heap and call it art.</p>
<p>Sell them on ebay.</p>
<p>I was considering having a book burning party with some friends at the end of my senior year, burning all of the SAT/ACT/AP Prep books and such since they're hard to get rid of sometimes. College mail would also make great material for this type of event, as everyone as a huge pile.</p>
<p>(I'm totally against other forms of book burning, btw. This is the only exception)</p>
<p>Donate them to a school, perhaps one that might not get courted by a lot of schools.</p>
<p>I am definitely not a tree-hugger type, but all the college mail I receive... what a waste of paper!!! Everytime I throw something out, my heart cringes at the shear pounds of trees being processed just to be thrown out by me. And this is up in Alaska- we have to pay money to recycle. For most of the stuff that doesn't have my personal info on it though, I just put it in the donation bins at my local library.</p>
<p>yeah I'm going to give my viewbooks to a high school near my house. or probably to friends whoever needs them. plus my sister is going to need it in the next few years :)</p>
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I was considering having a book burning party with some friends at the end of my senior year, burning all of the SAT/ACT/AP Prep books and such since they're hard to get rid of sometimes. College mail would also make great material for this type of event, as everyone as a huge pile.
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my friends and i burned them all. seriously. we probably should have just recycled them though... haha.</p>
<p>^^ Don't burn!! Recycle.</p>
<p>RECYCLE!!!! Seriously, you've probably already wasted a bunch of papers printing notes, papers, etc.. Use this opp. to recycle! Get your friends to recycle too because they prob. have college stuff, too.</p>
<p>^The problem with that is that not all of us can recycle. Alaska isn't the only place you have to pay for recycling.</p>
<p>Wow, we get paid to recycle :)</p>
<p>^^ Then send it all to me and I'll recycle it :) lol. </p>
<p>There are places you can take it for free I'm sure. Find a local environmental group. They'll use it!!</p>
<p>And btw, theglassumbrella, I recycle my notes and old homework too lol. [Yes, I'm kind of a hippie.]</p>
<p>I used to be a recycle-nut hippie too.
Then I realized how much recycling paper doesn't actually help.
Every reason I had was proven false. It doesn't save trees(they don't need saving), there's nothing wrong with landfills, and the driving around of the recycling just burns more of our precious fuel.
Trees are renewable, oil.... not so much.
I'm all for recycling other resources (aluminum in particular). But not paper. The negatives far out way the positives, for me.</p>
<p>(Sorry for the side-track)</p>
<p>My high school would probably just throw them away, especially if I gave them to the Book Nazi librarian. It might be wise to ask if they want them first before you bring in a huge bag full of trash for the school to put in its dumpster.</p>