So on Saturday the husband and I were at the local dump getting rid of some garden cuttings. For months I had been meaning to have a snoop around the 'household waste' section to see what people had thrown away, ever since I spotted some beautiful plywood school chairs a while back. You know what I found? A Minolta SLR camera in its case, plus a tube of pristine matching lenses. I nearly died, they were so good.
I picked them up to sneak them back to the car... But NO! Some bloke in an orange jacket apprehended me as I sniggered gleefully over my armful of treasure and wagged a prohibiting finger. Get this - the managing company's policy does not allow people to take things away from the dump for various stupid reasons. After some wrangling with the first guy's supervisor I still left empty handed. Mortifying.
What I want to know the most, though, is WHY on earth someone decided to throw those things away instead of eBaying them or at least donating them to a charity shop where they could have done some good! So wasteful.
Ah, health and safety, eh? Nonsense.
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No! That's terrible! Nothing like a jobs-worth to ruin your fun. :(
ReplyDelete:-( I know. I smiled and batted my eyelashes but still, no. damn!
ReplyDeleteThis is what I hate about rules. Rules are great in that they avoid chaos, but rules are not great when they avoid common sense.
ReplyDeleteMuch can be learnt from so-called "developing countries" resourcefulness when it comes to waste.
Kat in Argyll
Hi Kat, nice to hear from you! How's Scotland?
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. It's so annoying when things just go to waste for no good reason. It's probably rusting in landfill now. So sad. x