Cutting back on the Globe

Gene Koo decides to cut his Globe subscription back to just Sunday (too many ads, too little relevant stories, too much plastic, etc.), but says he'll keep donating to WBUR.

Earlier:
Should he cancel the Globe?

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Submitted by adamg on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 5:29pm.

Cutting down on Globe plastic bags

I e-mailed the Globe (via their website) and told them that it was wasteful to wrap each home-delivered Globe, NYTimes, and Wall Street Journal in a plastic bag, since my apartment building lobby is indoors and protected from the elements.

Now they deliver one newspaper without a plastic bag (sometimes with my apartment number written on it), and the rest of them still in plastic. That's a little better, but not quite what I intended.

Ron Newman | Tue, 08/12/2008 - 5:35pm

And they probably take that

And they probably take that one paper out of the plastic bag it's in and throw it away.

Dave | Tue, 08/12/2008 - 9:42pm

wrapping

if your delivery person is anything like mine, they wrap all of the papers ahead of time and then chuck them (or drop them off, in your case). I imagine it might be difficult to keep the "inside" deliveries separated from the "outside" deliveries. And don't forget the dog owners, who like to use the newspaper bags for cleanup duties.

I'm not saying you're not right (in terms of environmental correctness), but the decision is not as simple as you might think.

Lastly, there might be different delivery people for the Globe than for the NYT & WSJ. Again, in my experience, the Globe delivery person isn't the same as for the WSJ (and then there's the Financial Times!).

hrose | Wed, 08/13/2008 - 4:54am

The real waste...

... is the car driving around delivering these things. Remember when it was all done by bicycle? (I was one of those kids).

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genekoo | Wed, 08/13/2008 - 4:01pm