I've been wondering lately what you do with envelopes that contain small plastic windows. Can they be recycled? When separating plastic and paper to take out the recycling, I have always removed the plastic from the envelopes. This can be quite time consuming, especially if you have heaps of mail to recycle.

I decided to go to the internet, I found this great environmental blog called enviromom.com. In it contained the answer I was looking for...I found out I no longer have to take the plastic windows out, the recycling process does this for you! I carried on reading other really interesting articles on this blog, so interesting in fact that I have saved the website as one of my favorites. 

These moms actually went to a recycling facility for themselves to get answers to their recycling questions. They found out that there are machines that can filter out the plastic from the envelopes.

Read more at http://www.enviromom.com/2008/01/recycling-windo.html.