Look how happy he is!

  • Hossenfeffer
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    183 days ago

    Sad to say there’s odds-on chances that they’ll end up in land fill anyway.

  • Apathy Tree
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    It’s a bit disappointing that these are just going to be recycled and not actually repurposed. Went through all the trouble to collect them, perfectly good and useful for various things, but nah, just destroy them.

    Better than landfill, but it’s reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order, for a reason.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      Kid has 2.5k of them. You might repurpose a dozen of them, you’re not going to repurpose all of them.

      • @[email protected]
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        Head a a boot sale and sell them at £1 for 5. People buying the other stuff there will have boxes for it.

        £500 as well.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝M
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    93 days ago

    My auntie used to collect them too, in case they’d come in handy. Also lampshades. Helping her move in with my cousin because of the Alzheimer’s was fun, but it was getting three big, heavy Singer sewing machines down the loft ladder that was the challenge.

    Teddy, who wants to be a marine biologist or a stunt man when he grows up

    For a lad with that much get-up-and-go, he should consider combining the two.

  • @[email protected]
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    13 days ago

    I don’t understand why landfills are a thing when trash can be burned for energy. Obviously recyclables should be recycled, but why is there even a landfill for them to end up in?

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      Money and motive. I actually live in one of the few cities that do this.

      It is not a perfect solution. And as dumb as this sounds. That is often used as a reason not to spend on such plants. The issue is you simply cannot capture all co2 from burning. And still have to do something with what you do capture. Of course this in no way makes land fill better. But there is a reason for the phrase "don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ". Building waste energy plants is more expensive (much) then continuing to fill a land fill. And people do genuinely use such arguments to refuse the spending.

      Add to that local authority government is normally so low turn out. That a few a noted voters can prevent things happening. And you have your answer.

    • @Evotech
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      It takes longer to sort shit out that you can burn than it takes for people to dunno new stuff in it I think