Just a quick question. I have a few bundles of paper to be recycled, and the Papiersammlung where I am takes place on Wednesday.. but I will be in England until Wednesday night (from Friday). The next one takes place after I leave Switzerland for good.

Does anyone have any experience of getting rid of paper outside of these Papiersammlungen? I emailed the local recycling type place, but I was just curious to see what other people have done.

This thread is almost as exciting as the one about the sink plugs.

is there any recycling centre near you? that's where i get rid of mine...

Leave it by the side where the paper normally gets taken when you leave, it will stay there and be picked up when they do the next collection. Or just ask your neighbours if they can put it out at the next collection with their own. Warning: this may actually require talking to them.

ha ha ha
I take it you are English!!

That's what I was thinking- leaving it by the kerbside. Problem is it's a bit snowy here at the minute so they'll blatantly know it was me.. what with all the copies of UK magazines.. Maybe I could put it into plastic bags or something to protect it..

Or face the neighbours! I've been rehearsing what I should say

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

Not sure if that answers the question or not.

Wear the ninja scarf in your pic and you should be fine.

so you are then ....

It answers many questions, and poses many more.

But the most important thing: did he have a penchant for paper recycling as well as buggery?

I seem to remember him buggering the paper prior to recycling. I thought it normal at the time.

I'll be a ninja on a bike!

I think the main rubbish depot thing is a couple of km away from me.. so if they'll take it, it's no problem for me to cycle there. So I hope they do. Or else there'll be a pile of soggy paper by the side of the road.

If the neighbors won't talk to you, bring it in to Zürich and I'll put it out with mine.

Bit of a trek from Thurgau, but as a last resort for the truly desperate...

Awww ... you're leaving Jilliano?!! Got fed up with the place? ...

I think it's more normal for paper to be the one near the arse. Toilets etc. Poor you.

Well, I'm still a student actually, and this year is my "year abroad" thing, so I was only ever gonna be here until the end of May. After I finish here it'll be back to being lazy. And living in a place where nothing is ever on time and the chocolate is inferior. Sigh.

ahhh, but think of the benefits.

I do

Cheap clothes, friends, never ever having to start work at 7am again.. oooh that'll be lovely.

Of course if I don't get rid of this paper I'll probably be stuck here forever.

Burn it. ha ha ha

Ooooh there's a barbeque thing outside my apartment.. bonfire time!

Oh joy- apparently I can bring it to the place myself. I emailed them and that's fine.

Except they addressed me as "Herr".

Switzerland is convinced I'm a man. My rent slips thing also list me as Herr.

Must be the beard (that's why I have the ninja look going on..).

We tried that - just a few days before the official days. One of the neighbours called the police. We went to the police station (with a friend to interpret). They explained that the local law stated you were only allowed to put out the paper from 18:00 the night before collection. I asked whether it would be alright if we collected the paper and cardboard that evening, and the following evening put it back. The police officer agreed that we could do that. He said if we did, then we probably wouldn't get a fine. I got the impression he considered the neighbours' complaint to be rather a waste of time. Everyone in the police station found our suggestion highly amusing.

The neighbours who'd made the complaint looked on smugly while we collected the paper, carefully seperating out what wasn't ours, and put it into the back of our car. They looked so sick when we returned the next day and unloaded it all...

On the night we visited the cop shop, there had been a break-in at a local jewellers. Police were unable to attend as they were dealing with a serious littering incident.

So - do check with your local police whether it's ok to leave it out early. Some communities are fine with it.