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Tuesday 16th 35-37F, 2-3C, breezy with a heavy
overcast at first. The heavy cloud broke up only slightly as I walked to
the lanes. Yesterday's wind passed without much notice. The storm
warning for tomorrow, Thursday, has been cancelled. Wintry showers are
still promised. The flood on one field dip has almost completely disappeared and the "spring" has completely dried up. Presumably it is a broken field drain but it must be producing thousands of gallons per hour at its most active. At times the rising water looks clear, like tap water, but at others it is more green or brown. I checked with the water supply company but they said the site did not coincide with any of their water pipes. Though there was some sporadic digging in the area with a mini excavator, at a much later date, this did not seem to help.
Later afternoon ride in wet, wintry showers. Only 7 miles. Four items not in stock.
McDonald's aims for fully recycled packaging by 2025 - BBC News
Who cares if McSlobs makes its packaging recyclable, in only eight years, if most of it ends up on the verges anyway? McSlob's takeaway McSlobs are well proven, serial litterers! McSlobs should have been made to clearly and visibly charge for returnable packaging over and above the cost of the <cough> meal [between meals.]
Just as
the sugar and gas beverage companies should have been made to charge a
visible recycling fee to the customer for every single can. If every can
purveyor had a proper [or general] recycling scheme the public would
keep nature tidy because it would be worthwhile collecting it. Instead
of which Big Bad American Sugar & Gas bullied the world into
accepting non-returnable packaging. With all its foul consequences to
make another billion verges untidy with a material which will probably
last for centuries.Aluminium is endlessly recyclable. Which is much cheaper than quarrying and smelting new ore on the other side of the world. Even the recyclable cans must be presented to a machine in pristine condition. Imagine if they could be stomped on to make them less bulky to carry about and each squashed can could still be paid for in full regardless of origin?
There is a stomping machine behind the acceptance machine at the supermarket which flattens the cans anyway. Why not let pensioners, the unemployed and teenagers collect cans from their local verges to make a welcome few extra pennies? And, get some new interest, an improved social life and some desperately needed exercise into the bargain.
I regularly see a lady, now well into into her eighties or more, who clears litter from the verges on either side of the busy road which passes her rural home. She will never be out of work! Nor need to hang up her high viz jacket! What a comment on today's society and the local authority!
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