14.03.2022 Too much junk!

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 Monday 14th 35-49F, clear and bright. Wind from the SE again. Up at 05.30. The wind didn't feel so cold today. Three birds of prey were foraging near the road but took off as I arrived. A road sweeping lorry was leaving a furrow of wet, filth. 5cm high x 15cm wide in the middle of the traffic lane! Meanwhile, the traffic was throwing up great clouds of dust from the swept road! 

 My back hurts from yesterday's idiocy but at least two more, big and heavy items have gone. I have another trailer full of junk manhandled from the shed. Now neither local, recycling yard is open until Wednesday. I dare not go further afield and leave my wife unattended for more than a quarter of an hour. Which means I can't process more stuff for the trailer because it is already full. 

 Downsizing is not easy! Things we bought new and once valued have become utterly worthless to others. You can't give the stuff away. So might as well donate them to a charity shop. Otherwise it goes to the recycling yard. Where it is just unceremoniously dumped. In one of  many, labelled containers. Even this is very demanding of the "donor." 

 A hundred yards of itemized containers? Is your trailer presorted in strict, disciplinary order? How could you possibly know? There is a huge amount of time wasted just walking back and forth! The staff usually hide in the office. So they don't have to give the same sorting advice hundreds of times per day. Perhaps they just don't know the exact layout themselves? 

 You couldn't possibly invent a more chaotic system! Now there is talk of having eight or more dust recycling bins outside every Danish home! Traffic will have to be diverted! There will be no-go areas for buses! They will need to fit bulldozer blades to fire engines and ambulances just to get around!

 If we imagine ourselves measured by the sum of our belongings, then we are in for a very nasty shock! I was turned away by a charity shop with some very old [1970-80s] computer and cycling magazines. I thought they might hold interest for somebody. I was told to put them in the dustbin! Which meant the green recycling bin. Along with empty packaging, empty glass and plastic bottles and empty tins! I kept those magazines safely stored in boxes for 50 years! I have half a dozen boxes of "Practical Mechanics" magazines which I haven't even reached yet! Where will it all end[up?] 

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