Musings from the Merse
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Word has at last come from the High Heid Yins* at Borders HQ-bring out your multicoloured (well, lilac and transparent) plastic bags-and if you live in Hutton do so this Friday and your contribution to a Greener World will be rewarded (perhaps in the next?) So we will have to remember- cardboard, brochures, catalogues, junk mail, magazines . Newspapers, office paper,telephone directories, Yellow Pages (enough recycling lists Blog-ed-fair enough but I am just reading what it says on the lilac Bag. Huttonian) ) Then the transparent bag-shorter list (watch it. Blog- ed) basically food cans (what has happened to the good old English 'Tin')? and plastic with the right kind of Masonic symbol. Any interested sociologist doing a Ph.D on the domestic habits of eastern borderers should be at the end of Kirk Lane by 9am tomorrow, lap top charged or pencil sharpened and he/she will have no problem in analysing the very visible contents of 6 households' bags of tin and plastic. Apparently the HHY have decreed only one bag of both kinds, per household per week. But as we have had our bags for over three weeks and no collection I suspect there will be many more than 12 bags au fin de la route (as the French Revelocopede instructions insist). What will the bin persons do about that. Soloman come to Judgement.
* Spellchecker suggests 'Yangs' for 'Yins'
Yin Yang,
Yin Yang,
Plastic Bag.
Boo
Yin Yang,
Yin Yang,
Plastic Bags,
Two
We'll Take one
the other
for
you
(the song of the Environmental Hygenists with half a nod to the Goons)
* Spellchecker suggests 'Yangs' for 'Yins'
Yin Yang,
Yin Yang,
Plastic Bag.
Boo
Yin Yang,
Yin Yang,
Plastic Bags,
Two
We'll Take one
the other
for
you
(the song of the Environmental Hygenists with half a nod to the Goons)
Comments:
It's not that you're only allowed to put out one of each type of bag per week - it's that they've only given you enough bags for one of each type per week and won't issue extras in the event of you running out by recycling too much.
They don't expect every household to generate full bags every week - so the advice at the Wild West Recycling Show was only to put totally full-to-bursting bags out, if you can squeeze one more cigarette paper in to the relevant bag, it's not full.
They don't expect every household to generate full bags every week - so the advice at the Wild West Recycling Show was only to put totally full-to-bursting bags out, if you can squeeze one more cigarette paper in to the relevant bag, it's not full.
Thats ok then. I have three extra bags as there has been a three week gap since we got them until we could use them-so 55 bags for a 52 week Borders calender year. T o protest the lack of efficiency I will put out an extra bag with just one cigarette paper in it.
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