wat do you do wit old mono?

yes, I av no  key on my keyboard rit now... 

ow do you dispose of it?

Fireplace.  No eco-perfect, but really effective!

Many tackle shops will have a collection box for it... I think it gets recycled.

EK

I usually coil it up, snip the loops so it's a bunch of small pieces and toss it in the garbage.

That being said, your question made me think about recycling it and a quick Google search came up with this ... http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fishing/html/Publications/recycle.html

Anyone know any local tackle stores that take used mono for recycling?

-Allen

Anyone know any local tackle stores that take used mono for recycling?

-Allen

I know the SJ Fisherman's Warehouse takes it.  I dropped off a grocery bag full of it last summer.

I put them back on the original reels and take them to the tackle shop when I have a bunch. I have seen a recycling bin at Mel Cottons.

Coyote bait and tackle has a bin for recycling mono. There in south San Jose. Monterey Rd.

Reed's used to have a bin as well.

Have seen old mono get reused as skirt material for leadhead jigs also.

Outdoor Pro Shop in Rohnert Park (and I'm assuming Oakland) accepts old mono for recycling.

You can make pillows out of it or tie it up in tight little balls for scrubbing pots and pans

I throw it away.  Watch Penn and Teller's show on recycling and you will too.  The amount of energy spent carting plastics around to recycle them is more than it takes to make the plastic in the first place - certainly driving to fisherman's warehouse to recycle a few ounces of line is a losing proposition.

Now used spectra, that's got 1001 uses around the house...  If I have to sew a button back onto a shirt, that bugger's never coming off again!

How do you decide when spectra is "used", or is this the 6 feet you always cut off the end of your line?

I have been cutting less than that off, but there is always the line that hits the kayak, bumps the rudder, etc, at some
point, I know I should replace it the whole spool, I'm just not sure when.