18 May (Part 1) - Recycling abandoned
I was told in no uncertain terms by a group of seven friends that I was
absolutely nuts to wash jam jars and their lids in warm water, soak the paper
labels off, and separate the three items into the approved bins. Maybe they will revise their opinion of me now that I have
completely stopped
recycling except food scraps and garden waste which go into the compost. It makes life a great deal easier.
My immediate neighbour has never understood recycling and many’s the time I have
dragged stuff out of his bin and transferred it to another. Last Friday I didn’t
do that and as a result the blue lid bin wasn’t emptied. I suggested he just tip
everything into the green bin. His blue bin is empty now and I do not know where the contents have gone. Definitely not to the dump, he hasn’t got a car.
Thirty years ago I forecast that if the police kept pursuing motorists, that
eventually a lot of people would bear a grudge against them. Probably we reached that stage several years ago.
If other authorities set themselves against the population,
like ignoring my
Blue Badge a week and a bit ago, they will probably reap the same reward.