Have you ever noticed that the milk in the fridge in the milk bar has the older milk in the front and the newer (fresher) milk toward the back. Have you ever been guilty of neglecting the front row only to take the fresher milk from behind.

I have! I admit it!

This begs the question: How many other people out there do the same thing and if it’s a lot then there must be milk left over at the end of the week that no one has wanted.

I wonder…

wasteman

This is a flyer for a promotion I found the other day in the supermarket.
The bags they’re talking about are the re usable green bags. You know the ones that are supposed to save the planet.
These wonder bags are made from exactly the same stuff as a normal plastic bag the only difference is they last a little longer before falling apart, and they are great for companies to use as advertising billboards.
Why would such a promotion exist? Coud it be that we now have too many ‘green’ bags and now we have a new problem.

For earths sake, just get your hands on three or four QUALITY bags and keep them for ever. In fact pass them on to your children.
The last thing we need is large supermarkets telling us how to save the planet. Use your own brains. Please!
The only good thing about this promotion is the ability to take waste plastic and convert it into fabulous moulded products such as furniture. One  company who are doing this  is REPLAS . I’d love to check this company out…so stay tuned.
wasteman

I just can not believe we still receive the white pages delivered ‘free’ to our doorsteps. I don’t think I’ve flicked through the white pages in ten years!!
I never asked for it.
There’s a lot of paper in each of those babys!!

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WM

I always thought the water retention guards around the base of our street trees were just convenient places to throw our litter. Well, mostly they are except for the one I found the other day (see photo on right).
Nice one!! Why don’t we see more of this sort of thing?
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wasteman

Master chef is quite a good show. Far too many ads, but then sending the team to Paris wouldn’t be cheap. This much I reluctantly understand.
What I just can’t  believe,  is that we had to sit and watch the contestants filling plastic bag after plastic bag whilst shopping for beautiful french ingredients in the open air market.
I’m no TV producer but… some beautiful re usable shopping bags to match the aprons would have been a nice touch. Maybe next time!
See what happens when you don’t consult the wasteman prior to production…

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wasteman

The other day I bit the bullet and hired a small skip bin. The alternative was just simply too complicated.
The bin has since left. I actually wasn’t around when the bin was collected and carted away.
I can’t help thinking about the contents of the bin and where it is now. Everything that was placed into the skip is now sitting somewhere. I wonder where. Is is all together? Has it all been separated? Has it been buried? Where will it be in three months? Three years?
Am I strange to think about this?

wasteman

The photo on the right is the same hole / void only three days later.

If you look closely you will notice the cover to the pole has been moved around. It is possible (and indeed very likely) that someone has done some work right at this spot but just left the litter in the hole. They may have even added to it. I know it’s the council’s responsibility to clean this up. I’m just curious to know:

1. How does it happen in the first place.

2. Would a member of the public/community ever think to clean up a mess on the street?

3. How does this mess actually get cleaned up?

See previous post if you’re unsure what on earth I’m on about!
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wm

I see this sort of thing all the time. Where ever there is a hole or void of some sort, without doubt we will find a way to fill it up with waste.
As an experiment try placing a card board box (or other receptacle) out on the ‘nature’ strip and see how long it takes before it starts getting used as a bin.

ps Aplologies for the delay in posting (been over a month now). I’ve been re-ignited by an email from a ‘fan’ who wants to create a link… stay tuned!!

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wasteman

We are a funny bunch of people us humans! Why can’t we just get our hands on a couple of quality bags to go shopping with. No! Not us! We have to create a whole in-store display to help sell a whole lot of cheap, nasty, made in china solutions to a problem that a couple of simple quality bags would solve. Have you noticed the ‘green’ bag revolution is creating more waste than it’s saving!
We are a funny bunch us humans!
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wasteman

Check out the sticker. How long have cigarette but bins been doubling up as chewing gum bins?
I once did a waste’o'matic on chewing gum.

Every week in Australia we throw out around 6m3 (one large skip) of used chewing gum! Maultiply that by fifty two and that’s a lot of sticky s#@t!!

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wasteman