What if Rubbish Didn’t Exist

What if Rubbish Didn’t Exist

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Our local city council has finally decided to get into 21st-century practices as we have now been issued with new bins to deal with our rubbish.

Can you imagine what it would be like if rubbish didn’t exist? Sadly it is a fact of life, but many countries worldwide have been dealing with their garbage in far better ways than we have here where I live.

Recycling has been a way of life for me for a long time, taking trips to the local ‘transfer station’ for my plastics, cardboard, paper, cans and glass. I even got to know the chap who appeared to be running the show. He would come to the car and assist with deposing the items into the correct containers.

For the past several years, I have had a container with drawers in my shed in which I organised the different types of rubbish. This made it so much easier for me when the trip to the transfer station happened. Surprisingly, the paper and cardboard was the one that mounted up the quickest. I do question why, as most communication is electronic these days.

recycling

Finally, we now have bins, and I will no longer need to head off to the transfer station with the car packed up with all my rubbish. A blessing, you might think, but then again, I’d got to know that guy helping me, got to know about his grandkiddies. One time he told me about his little grandson who was very ill. Thankfully, by the next visit, the boy had recovered. So now I won’t be meeting people and smiling and saying hello to fellow recyclers.

Interestingly, the largest of the bins is dedicated to plastic, paper and cans, in other words, recyclable items. The actual rubbish bin is relatively small. I do believe they are sending a message!!!

The bonus is a compost bin. Yes!!! A compost bin! I have been doing my own composting, but there’s not much need with such a small garden. So the scraps had to be divided between composting buckets and garbage bags.

self made compost bucket

No more! This is a real bonus, and I hope many people take advantage of it.

new compost bin

So even though we now have this recycling system, I’ll rejoice more when either:

  1. All plastic is recyclable (currently here only #1 and #5)
  2. We live in a world without plastic.

And naturally, I prefer the second choice!

We do have to take responsibility for our environment. It doesn’t take much to look after our little patch.

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