I’m wondering if anyone has ever done this?
It feels bad but I wonder if it’s much worse than just letting the things get rot in my house over the next fifty years and then get recycled.
Also perhaps giving to a charity shop might work too but if they don’t sell that rubbish I imagine they might recycle it too.
Any sort of coating on cardboard makes it really hard to recycle, I’m told.
I have thrown away some older games yes. Stuff from my childhood that had a broken box and missing pieces.
I have been unable to get rid of the finished Pandemic Legacy 1 + 2 even though I have taken out all the meaningful campaign results like the map and characters where I meant to make some kind of wall decoration from those materials… they are rotting away on my desk upstairs… and the semi-empty boxes are now in the basement.
Loads. Big box games that goes for cheap gets recycled if they stay in the storage for too long. It was the only solution that would save my sanity once I hit 500+ games back in the day
Yup, not worth selling and not suitable for the charity shop.
Off it goes.
Ha. Thanks I feel a bit better about my next course of actions 
No worries. They are just games (le gasp!!)
I’ve recycled every Exit game I’ve owned.
Used to work in recycling but not in a dedicated cardboard/paper stream, more sorting skips. At some point there is no point in trying to recycle something, and into the giant trash heap it goes. If it’s in a good enough condition and you want it for yourself, reuse away (“Just don’t be caught selling it on, eh? There’s a good lad…”).
I fished out far more video games than board games, but a handful of my W40K models were found in such a skip, and the dice tray I still use to this day came in one too - but then neither of those would have gone into a seperate stream, unless we were reeeeaally desperate to fill up the cardboard bin by seperating those Space Marine sprues from their box.
I know for sure I recycled a Forbidden Desert tin though, because I took a photo of it on the pile of cans before it made its way into the press. I didn’t see any components, so I guessed whoever tossed it had the same opinion of those tins as I did…
Ah, it was Island not Desert, but that’s my trip down memory lane for this evening. Early January 2018. You’ll note the plastic Roses boxes are very much not aluminium drinks cans. Part of the job was wading through the edge of the mountain of tins and cans to fish out the plastic first, making sorting on the machine itself much quicker. Fun times.
Pringles cans are mostly cardboard, aren’t they?
Varies, the base used to be metal but has shifted (here, UK) to cardboard in the last few months. The top is a plastic that at least round here can go in the plastics recycling. The pointless foil cap is landfill.
If the effort isn’t worth the result, it’s not happening. Loads of people want to do the right thing by chucking things into recycling streams, but the amount of faff and bother that’d result could get annoying - especially when you don’t have the full processing stream in house (or on island, in my case).
“Reduce Reuse Recycle” isn’t a tagline for recycling, it’s a reminder to reduce the amount of rubbish you produce, reuse as much of it as you can, and as a last resort recycle it.
