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Wednesday 15th 53-63F, bright overcast. After some sunny periods it eventually turned grey. No walk today.Thursday 16th 60-65F. Overcast. A walk to the lanes amidst speeding traffic and a vast crop sprayer on the nearby field.
The Danish government's plans to have its citizens sort their rubbish 10 ways is becoming an argument over expense. The government says £5 [equivalent] while the commercial bin men claim it will cost £130 per year, per household!
Who is right? Those who do the job? Or those who only talk about having a meaningful job. So that, being vitally important, during a historic pandemic, they can fly back and forth over tiny Denmark to have photo ops. When they still have a ministerial car and full time chauffeur. I want that job! Then I can work on reducing Denmark's CO2 mass production [ever so slightly] by 3130 as promised in the election! Nice <cough> work if you can get it.
What is absolutely certain is that the streets of Denmark will become bin alley. Or bin laden if you prefer. Take four black bins out to the edge of the road by law? That's right! Every single house and flat will have to place four black bins on the pavement, parking space, cycle lane or cycle path, private or shared drive, or verge, once a week. AND, every house and flat will need somewhere to store at least four, black, wheelie bins. That is when they are not actually out on the verge, pavement, parking area, cycle lane, cycle path or drive waiting for collection at an indeterminate time. How does that work for tower blocks? Don't ask.
Better get your sorting right too! Or the bin men will leave your full bin and hang a card on the handle to say you are not doing it right! Leave a postage stamp sized piece of sticky tape on a single piece of cardboard packaging in the bin and it will not be emptied. Take my word for it. It is no longer paper waste but plastic waste! So now you have a full bin and nowhere to put your waste until the next collection. Give a bin man a little card and he'll take a mile!
The irony is that my wife [The Head Gardener] has been diligently sorting our rubbish for literally decades. She even re-uses bread wrappers as bin liners for her paper sorting. Empty milk cartons become pots for Her seedlings. Detergent bottle tops become cane protectors in Her garden. Colour coded too!Then there are all the plastic food trays. Which can be recycled endlessly in the garden and workshop. There's the largest compost heap on the planet. Visible from the ISS. Or so I have heard. There's the fruit and veg eating wormery... The list just goes on and on. A bit like me really.
No doubt these 30 odd millions of new <cough> recycling bins will be made in China and shipped to Denmark like everything else. That way Denmark avoids claiming the CO2 burden with a clear conscience. Meanwhile the unprotected, Chinese, forced labour workers can all die from all the toxins involved. Think of the savings in Danish health care compared with making the bins themselves! It's a sure fire vote winner for the next round of blatant lies. A nice little earner for the Chinese mafia masquerading as the politicooze.
We have to drag our heavy wheelie bins 100 yards along the drive [and back afterwards] or they won't and don't get emptied. Perhaps I can get social services to send somebody around to do the job for me? I'm 73 you know and this is supposedly an authoritarian, socialist country! 🤣
Is it bin day? Or am I twirly? Can I have large "off road" pneumatic tyres on my new bins please? These solid tired wheels are such hard work on rough ground! If I live much longer I may have to ask for tow hooks to be fitted to all of these bins. If we still have a car by then.
Despite the pandemic and continuing lockdown we are expected to take our 1990s car to the garage. To have it fettled before taking the official [fit for use] biennial test. Does having a mechanic in and out of the car, for a couple of hours, inside a closed workshop sound like social distancing to you? Thought not.
Keep on sortin'! ®
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