How do I dispose of a synthetic flag

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IronWing

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I think I just figured out why the UK never forced an Act of Union on Canada. It would have been ugly.

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Imp

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Really? I think that's a good looking flag. The sticks are an improvement.

Might not look as good if the Scots do their referendum thing again. For those that need to be awared, the flag is a mash-up of the Scottish, Welsh, and English flags. I forget which is which.
 

zinfamous

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burn the cheap plastic flag, encase the molten plastic ball in a 1k lb lead block, then dump it in the nearest golf course.
 

MongGrel

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burn the cheap plastic flag, encase the molten plastic ball in a 1k lb lead block, then dump it in the nearest golf course.

Might really be fun if you made some lead golf balls and left em around a few Trump golf courses.

But I guess he isn't that dense.

Then again ...
 

Carson Dyle

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You put it in the trash and it goes off to the land fill to join the hundreds of millions of its brethren that have been similarly buried in those land fills.
 
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You put it in the trash and it goes off to the land fill to join the hundreds of millions of its brethren that have been similarly buried in those land fills.

Not in my city, I'm pretty sure its eligible for recycling. I've read our plastic recycling rate is close to 100% (I forgot the term but its essentially what % of plastic that ends up in recycling gets reclaimed)
I don't remember the exact number but it was like 99.something%
 

Carson Dyle

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Ok, so if it's recyclable, recycle it. (???) If you think it's important, use the Cub Scout method above to properly make it "not a flag" first. (But don't cut through the blue field of stars, and make sure you cut the stripes in the right direction. LOL.)

And if it's not recyclable, put it in the trash, same as you'd do with any non-recyclable trash.

As for burning it... I wouldn't stand downwind, but the amount of pollution compared to that caused every day by all the other human activities on this planet has to be laughably small. If you were burning flags every day, it would be something to consider. Not for something you do once a decade.