One man's trash is another man's blog entry

One thing that has blown me away here is the quantity of furniture people throw away. Every month or so the council does a clean up, and at the bottom of our cul-de-sac, a mountain looms: old mattresses, sofas, refrigerators, cupboards etc. On the way to work I see it too, almost every Monday (snaps below). It’s actually a bit obscene, when you think about all these products people must be buying. Piece of crap indeed. But half the time the things aren’t even broken. We rescued a computer chair from the pile last weekend, in perfect condition (apart from that odd smell).

It’s a big change, coming from a city where people went around collecting cardboard and stole manhole and drain covers to sell for scrap metal. Sydney would be the reciclador’s dream.