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- Aug 10, 2019
Holy fuck that tweet "Still at it despite a bit of snow". You should be. That's what you are contracted for.Some recycling news, and it seems as dumb as we've been expecting. It looks like they drag their old horseboxes to the local landfill site x times a week/month then wait while whoever wants to recycle brings their tub of garbage from home. The three labels I can read say "Aluminum Cans", "Glass", and "Small Electronics", although the latter also has a long list of stuff they won't take. That buggy also looks like it last did service in a Doris Day musical. Apparently they fill their horseboxes then drag them somewhere else to unload. That glass one is sure going to be fun to empty out, although to be fair, horseboxes aren't designed to be able to dump all the contents quickly.
The whole charade seems to be ridiculously labour intensive. Under the old scheme, there were a number of specialised recycling dumpsters that were just left unattended until full whereupon a big truck would lift them on to the back and take them away to the central facility. Yet even with that level of automation, it was too expensive for the local council to carry on. Now it seems that some troon, drawn at random from the slave pool, has to make four trips from the Tranch to the landfill on specified days, hang around for a few hours, then make four more trips home, with occasional excursions to the mother-dump. They were moaning about getting stiffed for $11,000 for three weeks work. The council stopped the old recycling scheme because it was costing them around $20,000 a year. I'm struggling to see how they break even here.
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Also, not a single license plate.