What? Recycle Your Adult Toys?
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I think for the first time that I can remember I am a bit aprehensive about post consumer recycling. A friend emailed me to tell me about a web site where you can recycle your adult play toys…you know the ones hidden in the naughty drawer. Well…I am not so sure if I like this idea. Hey you all know I LOVE recycling. It is one of the 3 Rs of environmentalism for heavens sake, but recycling sex toys?????
The site in question is Sex Toy Recycling and the basic idea is this:
You take your used toy and seal it in a special envelope the site provides. You mail it to their processing center and they get sterilized and sorted. Mechanical toys are sent to technicians to see if they can be refurbished and silicone and rubber toys are ground up and recycled into new toys. For sanitary reasons all the toys get a layer of NEW silicone too.
And as a reward for recycling your old friend you get a $5.oo gift certificate towards a recycled one from their store.
I don’t know if this is a post consumer waste product that I could buy. 
But if you can buy without issue then more power to you! Where do you stand ?
Technorati Tags: recycle, post consumer waste, sex toys, environment
- Posted in Green Living, TidBits on September 4th, 2007
September 6th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Hi Zen Mother,
An interesting post! But I think if you look closely at the Sex Toy Recycling Site, they never got round to launching it for real - there’s no real contact information on the site or a link to their store…
On the other hand, LoveHoney’s sex recycling program is in full swing! You can see it here:
http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/rabbit-amnesty/
And here are some of the recycled sex toys being processed:
http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/sex-toys/blog/2007/08/28/rabbit-amnesty-what-happens-to-your-recycled-sex-toys/
Do drop me a line if you’d like any more info!
All the best,
Richard
September 6th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Yeah, can you send me a sample? Haha. Just kidding.
Thanks for the info!
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November 30th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
This sounds like a great idea but with so amny toys made out of hazardous materials i think it will be awhile before this takes off because everyone is just throwing away thier toys not recycling them.
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July 20th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
The biggest problem is that most sex toys are of such atrocious quality, that they break after 3 months. Which is why our sex toy web sire http://www.jodivine.com has chosen to only stock quality branded toys made from silicone, glass or metal.
If you buy good quality toys, they last and you don’t need to recycle them!
July 24th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Wow, that is interesting, but I’m not sure I feel comfortable with that either, I think I’ll stick to buying new ones, although I do like that there is somewhere I can send the broken ones, instead of the trash.