When tossing papers in the recycling bin, do I still need to remove staples?

Question

When tossing papers in the recycling bin, do I still need to remove staples?

Answer 1

Guess you already got your answers, but I'll go ahead and throw in my 2 cents. From my own personal experience with recycling - no, that is unnecessary, unless your city recycling service or recycling center informs you otherwise. If you have a lot of papers to recycle, that would be a bit tedious and time consuming to go through all of them and pull staples.

At home, I do remove the staples before running things through the shredder, though, even though the shredder is supposed to be able to handle them.

Answer 2

no, it's just a waste of time I think.

Staples are a very small portion of the actual paper that is being recycled so it wouldn't really matter.

Answer 3

Not really , those who process such papers have anticipated presence of mechanical material like pins and have a process to remove them.

Answer 4

no, i read an article on recycling plants a while ago and they have machines that remove excess stuff like that. dont waste ur time.

Answer 5

...well here in the recycling, green insanity of the US....the recycle

centers say their machinery picks up metal crud mixed in with paper...

...I sure wouldn't unless you have a quick and painless way to do it...

Answer 6

You really don´t need to unless you want your boss to think you are really busy!

Answer 7

no you don't have to

Answer 8

NO