Recycling....
I generate a lot of paper, because I'm a newspaper junkie and print at least 2000 pages of A4 every month, but have to chuck it all in a bin. This is because Croydon still doesn't provide recycling facilities for apartment blocks, but only for individual houses. Is it that foolish to think that if a council has a recycling policy it would make sense to start with flats - a guaranteed quick kill - rather than individual houses? Also, I don't have a car and the nearest possible recycling point is at least a 15 minute walk away with no public transport point to point. Both the good guys and the lot who lost in May had promised to extend recycling to flats, but as yet nothing.
I generate a lot of paper, because I'm a newspaper junkie and print at least 2000 pages of A4 every month, but have to chuck it all in a bin. This is because Croydon still doesn't provide recycling facilities for apartment blocks, but only for individual houses. Is it that foolish to think that if a council has a recycling policy it would make sense to start with flats - a guaranteed quick kill - rather than individual houses? Also, I don't have a car and the nearest possible recycling point is at least a 15 minute walk away with no public transport point to point. Both the good guys and the lot who lost in May had promised to extend recycling to flats, but as yet nothing.
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This is one of my specialised subjects. Yes, this is one of the major problems for local authorities. I think a chute system should be installed on different floors. And of course, each apartment block should have their own recycling facilities like you find at supermarkets. It should be made as easy as possible. Keep hassling your local authority about it.
Every once in a while I ponder on freeing one of the enormous wheelie bins and trundling it down to below my window so I can just drop things from the window.
Still, we are better off here than in parts of the continent where you will be fined for not sorting rubbish. Things are especially bad in France where there are collective bins covering dozen or so households in rural areas, and it strikes me as a bit raw that the old and infirm may very well have to make comparatively long walks in order to avoid falling foul of the bin police.
Before you start disgarding your 2,000 pages generated by yourself in a communal chute, be sure to buy a shredder. There are people who make a very good living going through disgarded papers.
Here's another tip, only tangentially related, but well worth passing on. When you receive your new credit card, never sign the back of it. Your signature can be copied.
Instead, print: Photo ID required.
This way, if your card is stolen it will be useless to the thief.
Verity,
Good point about shredding. Most of what I generate is not even remotely of interest / value to anyone unless they are interested in old newspaper items And I'll bear in mind your tip, for which thanks.
Reminds me of what happened when the Iranians seized the US embassy in Tehran in '78(?):the Americans did some very serious cross shredding but volunteers sat down and re-assembled the shredded pages, finding, inter alia, a list of all the people on the CIA payroll in the country. Now US policy is to crossshred and burn, I think.
Barbara, nope noting as exciting as that - it is the print outs I need for work. While I could rig up a second monitor etc etc, I find it a lot easier to speed read paper than from a screen. Also I get paid printing costs, and what they pay is a lot more than it costs me..... Hey, they volunteered a fee, and then I found ways to cut costs - toner from ebay, duplexing etc etc.
Your client's paperless office business sounds like nonsense on stilts, doesn't it?
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