Saw this Mighty Wallet in a bookshop the other day. Packaging said it is made of Tyvek, and "recyclable".
I jumped on the net and went to http://www.tyvek.com/ figuring (mistakenly) that it was the company manufacturing the wallets. Got routed to a Dupont site - Tyvek it turns out is a material produced by Dupont (like Kevlar etc).
I thought initially wow cool a recyclable wallet. But then after having a quick look at the Dupont website at http://www2.dupont.com/Tyvek/en_US/sales_support/recycling.html and http://recycletyvek.wm.com/home.cfm, it seems you can't just pop it into a recycling bin for paper or plastic - you need to get a Waste Management Tyvek Kit! How lame is that? And how is that recycling if you need to get a kit to recycle? Fine if you are doing it on a big scale... but in this case, for the dude with the Mighty Wallet, buying a kit hardly makes sense. Or what if you live in an area where there isn't a Tyvek recycling programme?
Note - A quick check on Wikipedia notes that "Despite the fact that some Tyvek products are marked with the #2 resin-code for HDPE, it is not usually collected with plastic bottles as part of municipal curbside recycling programs." - Wonder why that is?
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