Who recycles their line?

[jooleyen]

How many of you recylce your line?

[nofearengineer]

Sigh....recycling fishing line is a ridiculous idea. It costs more in time, trouble, and money to recycle it than to make new.

I know they do this to promote people not discarding their line in the water, which is a great thing. Personally, I have probably collected miles and miles of fishing line I find floating around in lakes. I have been horrified to find several pelicans and gulls dead, wrapped up in big tangles of fishing line. I can't think of many worse ways to die. On the selfish side, I also figure the line I clean up could be the line that was destined to get wrapped around my prop.

Don't bother recycling it...just throw it away! When you strip it of your reel, wrap it around something, and cut the "loop" into many pieces, so nothing can get trapped in it. That is what I do.

[bassboogieman]

Really, how economical can that be? My used/damaged line gets stored in a baggie until I get home then it's in the trash. When changing line at home, I put it in a plastic bag and in the trash.

[WaffleJaw]

How else they gonna make toothbrush bristles and fake moustaches....magic?...I think not.

[66KingFisher]

Honestly, I had no idea it was a recyclable commodity....hmmmmm. I've never once in my life changed my line on the water,so thats not an issue for me, and any line changes I do at home the line gets disposed of in the garbage or burn pile.

[WTL]

I sometimes use old braid to stitch buttons on work pants. Thats about all the recycling Im going to do with line.

[BassFeverJohn]

Originally Posted by WTL

I sometimes use old braid to stitch buttons on work pants. Thats about all the recycling Im going to do with line.

Ha! I have done that...

[Jrob78]

Originally Posted by nofearengineer

Don't bother recycling it...just throw it away! When you strip it of your reel, wrap it around something, and cut the "loop" into many pieces, so nothing can get trapped in it. That is what I do.

That's what I do too.

[rrw4258]

Nope, don't recycle fishing line here.... burn baby burn!

Ryan

[Raul]

Hmmm, let´s see, no, I don´t "recycle" my line, nobody here recycles their line because we are not recyclers, dispose of it for recycling, nope, I´m in Mexico and we don´t have line recycling bins like you guys in the States have, so it goes to the trash but cut into teeny tiny weeny pieces for the reasons Nofear stated, I don´t want any animal to get tangled, trapped and die a horrible death by fishing line. Burn it ? uhhh, nope, I don´t think that´s a good idea, I think that with the fumes produced by vehicles and factories we have more than enough air pollution and I won´t contribute with it more than I already do.

If you have the opportunity of dumping your old fishing line in a bin, why not do so ?

[shawn]

If I'm at a lake that has a line recycling bin, I will sometimes. Otherwise, I just cut it up and throw it out as others have said they do.

[screwballl]

When I do swap my line out, I usually keep a big pair of scissors handy... so just before I toss it, above the trash can I cut it up tangles and all so they end up in 6-18" lengths. Less chance of looping and hurting animals and also easier to spread out and break down once it reaches its final destination.

[geezer1]

I wad it up & store it in a plastic bag. At any one of my trips to the local Bass Pro Shop, I turn it in to the reel counter for recycling. Berkley sponsors the program, & it's probably available through stores handling their products everywhere. It's just too easy to do.

[BluWyoming]

Please do not let my wife read this... Do not get me wrong, if there is a center or bin near I will comply right away. My neighborhood does not have any recycling program but my wife saves everything, often times scoring me many trips to the nearest center 20+ miles away. It is not the distance it is the fact that people in Hampton Roads area can not drive.

[Rebbasser]

My answer is sometimes. We have city recycling bins here so when I respool it goes in the recycle bin. On the water line, whether it is mine or line some inconsiderate sphincter muscle left laying around, I usually put it in a trash can. I do make it a point to pick up ALL line I find at the lake and at least put it in a trash can or haul it home and then throw it away.