[robbrown451]

Ok, but put things in perspective. A musical greeting card is typically a $5-10 purchase. People presumably pay this money because they expect someone to get that much enjoyment out of it.

The amount of recyclable paper in a greeting card is probably worth about 1/100th of a cent, if that.

Maybe these costs seem irrelevant, but still -- they seem to be expecting people to bypass the card for a more recyclable one, when the recyclable value of a greeting card is so, so, SO tiny. The more realistic advice is, if you get one of these cards, don't try to recycle it, put it in the regular trash. It's not the end of the world. (and no, we aren't running out of space for landfills.... of all the environmental damage we are doing, modern landfills are one of the least significant)

At the end of the day, recycling is more to make people feel good than anything. Sure, aluminum recycling makes sense. Recycling large amounts of paper (like cardboard boxes) makes sense. But the majority of things that go in a recycling bin just need a bunch of people to pick through it, so they can eventually send it to the landfill.

[AstralStorm]

How about not buying the trash card and instead opting for regular paper or fully electronic?

Each tiny piece of complex trash adds to a horribly polluted landfill...

Recycling indeed is not cost effective or even impossible. Even cardboard can be contaminated with wax or paint enough to prevent recycling or require use of expensive and dangerous solvents.

Perhaps Asian way of outright banning bad packaging and products is the solution.

[robbrown451]

Fully electronic cards don't count as cards.

[triceratops]

> don't try to recycle it, put it in the regular trash. It's not the end of the world

The batteries are going to pollute the landfill.