Disposing of Old Fishing Line?

[N.Y. Yankee]

What do you do with old line? I put it in a  big ZipLoc bag and take it to a recycle box but they are getting hard to find now (!)

[garroyo130]

Wrap it around hand a million times as i remove it then cut the looped line twice so strips are no longer than about 3" and throw in regular trash

[desmobob]

It's irresponsible to leave it it laying around outside.

 

It's also downright dangerous to leave it laying around inside where it can get wrapped around the innards of the ol' lady's vacuum cleaner...  ?

[Darth-Baiter]

As i Make trash line, I cut it and stuff it into my PFD pocket. At the end of day, most of our lakes have cylinder containers marked for “ fishing line disposal only”.  I dump it there.   Not sure what happens from there. 
 

 

[ironbjorn]

I keep it in a box in the garage and then throw it in the fire pit from time to time. 

2 hours ago, desmobob said:

It's irresponsible to leave it it laying around outside.

 

It's also downright dangerous to leave it laying around inside where it can get wrapped around the innards of the ol' lady's vacuum cleaner...  ?

My dad was staying with my fiance and me for a couple weeks back in June. I left a spool of line on the living room floor and she decided to vacuum around it while I was at work. Apparently my dad watched her, waiting. Eventually it happened: she caught the end piece and sucked the whole spool up. My dad told her, "I thought that might happen." ? They then spent an eternity cutting it all out.

[WisconsinF]

Wad it up and hit it for a few seconds with a heat gun. Turns into a solid little ball. Works with braid also. Don't have to put the flame right on it...just get it good and warm. A propane torch works also if used carefully. 

[David 7]

I’ve always just thrown it out into the regular garbage. I’m assuming that contained in a garbage bag, and in a landfill, it can’t do any harm.

[MickD]

Recycling and trashing it in any form is risky since it may not be destroyed properly.  Keep a plastic container and put the line into it.  When it gets so full it's a problem to put more into it, burn it.  That way there is no chance of it getting tangled up in  a bird or animal.  

 

OK, you don't like the fumes and burning it.  It's not a perfect world.  Minimize the risk to everyone and burn it so it doesn't tangle anything.  The fumes are a miniscule problem.

[Hammer 4]

I put my line in a old milk carton, or plastic bottle and write on it that there is fishing line inside. Then put in the recycling bin.

[Bubba 460]

 

Animals turtles, and birds can get caught in discarded fishing line and die. Either at the lake, pond, river, at the dump, wherever it ends up. Always discard fishing line properly. I wad it into a tight ball then wrap it in duct tape all the way around before I toss it in the trash There were several other great ideas posted here as well on safely eliminating old line.

[CrankFate]

I ball it up, put it in my pocket and throw it away at home.

[islandbass]

14 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

As i Make trash line, I cut it and stuff it into my PFD pocket. At the end of day, most of our lakes have cylinder containers marked for “ fishing line disposal only”.  I dump it there.   Not sure what happens from there. 
 

 

Yup. I definitely use those too. But at home, if I have to toss some, I just put it in the trash. Until now I didn’t give it much thought. Is there a better place to dispose of it?

[Log Catcher]

I put it in a big sack. After it gets quite a bit in it I will take it to BPS and give it to someone at the fishing counter for recycling. They will recycle the spool too.

[DINK WHISPERER]

I throw mine out in the burn pile on my property. 

[MN Fisher]

Unspool to a dowel, slice through it with a razor-knife into small lengths, out in the normal trash.

 

21 minutes ago, DINK WHISPERER said:

I throw mine out in the burn pile on my property. 

Wish I could - City Ordinance: all we're allowed to burn is paper, cardboard and wood...nothing else.

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

Unspool to a dowel, slice through it with a razor-knife into small lengths, out in the normal trash.

 

Wish I could - City Ordinance: all we're allowed to burn is paper, cardboard and wood...nothing else.

That’s ironic since the city that makes the ordinance burns coal for power

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That’s ironic since the city that makes the ordinance burns coal for power

Ya - but it's being scaled back massively.

"About 25% of utility-scale electricity generation in Minnesota came from coal-fired electric power plants in 2020, down from 53% in 2011"

 

We're also very dependent on Nuclear here with Wind, Solar and Biomass finally surpassing that.

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=MN#tabs-4

[TnRiver46]

16 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Ya - but it's being scaled back massively.

"About 25% of utility-scale electricity generation in Minnesota came from coal-fired electric power plants in 2020, down from 53% in 2011"

 

We're also very dependent on Nuclear here with Wind, Solar and Biomass finally surpassing that.

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=MN#tabs-4

A good direction to go! But they should let you burn fishing line haha.  It’s always funny to me how hydro power brought jobs and electricity to my region in the 30s (tva) and it’s one of the most inefficient ways to make power. It sure helps with flooding though.