If you have hundreds or thousands of old photos, keep what’s best and bin the rest (nothing bad will happen, people throw out magazines with photos every day, and you can’t recycle or burn photo film, as it releases toxic gas).
Instead of hoarding dusty albums and boxes of photos of the tops of people’s heads and clouds from aeroplanes, sort out the ones you really do like, and display them for everyone to see!
If you have lots of photos you’d like to keep, you can send them off to Vintage Photo Lab (there’s always a risk, but they’re just photos), and they can return you a lovely digital album of all your shots, which you can then store to a disk or on the cloud, for safekeeping. This company can take old faded photos, slide disks and vintage albums, along with old scrap books and telegrams.
Don’t get sentimental about throwing out photos you no longer need or like. Nobody needs to keep photos of chopped-off heads or clouds from aeroplanes. And sometimes having a little ‘blessing ceremony’ and just releasing photos from past relationships etc, can help you to move on.
Nothing bad will happen. Consider all the photographs in newspapers and magazines, that are recycled each day. They get tossed in recycling bins. Just keep the photos you love, and display them where you can see them. Rather than have loads of dusty photo albums, that are never looked at.
