{"id":7559,"date":"2017-04-26T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7559"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:38:03","slug":"informal-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7559","title":{"rendered":"Informal recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Upcyclesymbol.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7567 size-medium\" title=\"&lt;a title=&quot;By Ania Bl\u0103jan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons&quot; href=&quot;https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AUpcyclesymbol.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;256&quot; alt=&quot;Upcyclesymbol&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/10\/Upcyclesymbol.png&quot;\/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Upcyclesymbol-300x300.png\" alt=\"Upcyclesymbol\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Upcyclesymbol-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Upcyclesymbol-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Upcyclesymbol.png 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was on my way somewhere yesterday when I met a homeless man doing some informal recycling.\u00a0 He was one of these people who I think has unfortunately become institutionally homeless and probably prefers being homeless (surprising but true).\u00a0 We had quite a chat about his haul of informal recycling.\u00a0 What never ceases to amaze me is what and how much people throw away.\u00a0 Almost everything he had in his very large holdall bag, suitcase and other smaller bag had been found in various bins.\u00a0 This next bit is a little like the conveyor belt on the &#8220;Generation Game&#8221; (for those who can remember that).\u00a0 Those who cannot look it up.\u00a0 The haul included;<\/p>\n<p>A brand new looking shower radio shaped like a fish (with batteries still in it was loud) with a cord attached to dangle it from the shower or taps.\u00a0 A down sleeping bag and something to make a bivvy bag.\u00a0 Foodstuffs (slightly more dodgy this) consisting of two half eaten apples and a complete tub of cr\u00e8me fraiche.\u00a0 We had a chat about use by dates and using our nose.\u00a0 The man also dug out a complete set of wooden blinds which he was loath to part with (or at least put back), but had no use for.\u00a0 He asked me if I wanted them.\u00a0 I declined having no use for them.\u00a0 They looked perfectly OK though.\u00a0 When I came back an hour later he was still there and offered me the blinds again having packed his haul into his bags.\u00a0 He also seemed in the meanwhile to have found one of these plastic tool boxes that joiners use, with tools still in it?!<\/p>\n<p>This encounter apart from cheering me up no end, reinforced how much people chuck away without thinking about it. With the exception of the apples and the possible exception of the cr\u00e8me fraiche everything was perfectly serviceable and the bin was a normal landfill bin used by flats.\u00a0 At least this very cheery chap was extending the usage and life of some of this &#8220;junk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way somewhere yesterday when I met a homeless man doing some informal recycling.\u00a0 He was one of these people who I think has unfortunately become institutionally homeless and probably prefers being homeless (surprising but true).\u00a0 We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-low-carbon-living","category-recycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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