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    Books are indeed recyclable. One way you can recycle your old books is by simply taking them to a charity shop where they will resell them ~ giving the charity of your choice much needed income. Another way is to dispose of them in a book-bank. A book bank is a recyclable unit where you can leave your books and they will be recycled into all sorts of things ~ even motorways!

    When a book goes to a recycling unit, they first use a solution to dissolve the ink from the print. After that, the paper can be soaked and then pulped and made into more books produced on recycled paper, or as I said before, used in hard surfaces such as motorways to bulk the road out.

    Hard-cover books are harder to recycle than soft-cover books due to the laminating process used in hard-cover books. Telephone directories can also be recycled, but because they are made from another grade of paper to that of soft-cover books, and they have a lot of glue binding, they have to be recycled in a different more complex way.
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    Guest 

    answered 3 years ago

    A great place for green books is:

    Http://www.GreenTextbooks.org

    Save Money, Save The Planet
    GreenTextbooks.org specializes in the recycling of textbooks, DVDs, CDs. Buying used textbooks not only saves you money, but cuts down on greenhouse gases caused by the manufacturing of new textbooks.
    With GreenTextbooks.org you're not only saving trees, your saving some green.
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    Greentext

    commented 1 year ago

      Yes, indeed, they can be....
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      Saphira777 

      answered 2 years ago

        Yes books are recyclable because they are made out of paper.
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        Creasha 

        answered 2 years ago

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