I built a shelf in my room for a total of 6.50 Euros. The thing is that I used mayonnaise buckets from work. There's a picture on my photo pages of it. Every day we throw away (well, put into the recycling dumpster - whatever that means°°) at least two of these or the tomato sauce buckets. It's really hard for me to see them go, not just because I love using things that would otherwise go to waste, but more because of working in the townships of Cape Town. There people share communal taps and anything that can hold a reasonable amount of water is very valuable. Something that can hold water and has a lid is even more so. In their first life, the ones here aren't even used to hold paint or other toxic chemicals...
Even in the schools we worked in there, a container like the ones here were super valuable. From using them as watering cans to growing saplings in.
So, I'm glad I could use them for something useful, even though we've got a shower, bath, basin and kitchen sink all with fresh water, hot and cold, at a turn of a tap in our flat.
°° I hope they are recycled, but even if they are, there is all the energy to think of that the process of breaking them down to plastic pellets that can then be used to make more plastic things uses.
2 comments:
Slapper, stop going off about silly things.
Either send the buckets to CT or recycle them yourself or just forget about them. Stop lamenting the waste and fall of western civilisation from a first world country. If you want to do something about such issues, either come back and work in a low paying job that you got some satisfaction out of or get lots euros from those silly Germans and come back here and do some good.
Or start to change those silly Germans so that they recycle properly.
Cheers buddy, find some warm sun.
Paul
Who needs the sun when they've got you, Paul? :-)
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