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Yeah, this is 100% wish-cycling -- and honestly, the total amount of shavings you'd be throwing away after using this device heavily wouldn't even amount to a s

Yeah, this is 100% wish-cycling -- and honestly, the total amount of shavings you'd be throwing away after using this device heavily wouldn't even amount to a single small cardboard box.

dylan604 1y ago
I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point, and decided to be less cynical. Anytime I see that kind of obvious play on the recycling heart string as a selling point just makes me throw up a little and roll my eyes all at the same time. The marketing department just goes overboard and nobody calls them on it
- Retric 1y ago
  Recycle is more than just the municipal recycling stream, you can use that kind of shavings for some things. For example use glue to add fur to a cardboard creation.
  - Jolter 1y ago
    That’s a good example of reuse, not recycling. Recycling means making new cardboard or paper out of old material.
    - bluGill 1y ago
      Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. That is an ordered list, you move to the next step only after you can done everything you can in the previous step.
    - Retric 1y ago
      The common definition, “Reuse is the action or practice of using an item, whether for its original purpose or to fulfill a different function.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse Reusing grocery bags as trash bags is the same item in a new context. “Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling Old tires to footwear is recycling even if you can see the old tread pattern you don’t have a tire at this point it’s a new item, or as I suggested cardboard crap waste to fir on a piece of artwork. The difference is you’re modifying the underlying item for use as part of something new. It can feel like a grey area. Upcycled is often used when much of the original item remains, but shredded cardboard isn’t really cardboard as it lacks some of its fundamental properties arising from the 3D structure.
  - asielen 1y ago
    If it is clean, can't you also compost it?
    - IAmBroom 1y ago
      Or, you know, just bin the 1/2-ounce of shavings.
- coldpie 1y ago
  > and nobody calls them on it This is so low on the long list of bad things in the world that it isn't worth the calories burned to type up a callout. > I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point, and decided to be less cynical. Good call. I thought the comment as you wrote it was perfectly good & useful.

Yeah, this is 100% wish-cycling -- and honestly, the total amount of shavings you'd be throwing away after using this device heavily wouldn't even amount to a single small cardboard box.

dylan604 1y ago

I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point, and decided to be less cynical. Anytime I see that kind of obvious play on the recycling heart string as a selling point just makes me throw up a little and roll my eyes all at the same time. The marketing department just goes overboard and nobody calls them on it

Retric 1y ago
Recycle is more than just the municipal recycling stream, you can use that kind of shavings for some things. For example use glue to add fur to a cardboard creation.
- Jolter 1y ago
  That’s a good example of reuse, not recycling. Recycling means making new cardboard or paper out of old material.
  - bluGill 1y ago
    Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. That is an ordered list, you move to the next step only after you can done everything you can in the previous step.
  - Retric 1y ago
    The common definition, “Reuse is the action or practice of using an item, whether for its original purpose or to fulfill a different function.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse Reusing grocery bags as trash bags is the same item in a new context. “Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling Old tires to footwear is recycling even if you can see the old tread pattern you don’t have a tire at this point it’s a new item, or as I suggested cardboard crap waste to fir on a piece of artwork. The difference is you’re modifying the underlying item for use as part of something new. It can feel like a grey area. Upcycled is often used when much of the original item remains, but shredded cardboard isn’t really cardboard as it lacks some of its fundamental properties arising from the 3D structure.
- asielen 1y ago
  If it is clean, can't you also compost it?
  - IAmBroom 1y ago
    Or, you know, just bin the 1/2-ounce of shavings.
coldpie 1y ago
> and nobody calls them on it This is so low on the long list of bad things in the world that it isn't worth the calories burned to type up a callout. > I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point, and decided to be less cynical. Good call. I thought the comment as you wrote it was perfectly good & useful.