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.
4 Comments:
Does that fan work? I could use it!
Me too! It's 35 degrees today (that's 95F).
Do you have "freecycling" in Australia yet? Here in the London Borough of Lambeth we have a system where you can offer up stuff like this to other people before you dump it.
Actually, I've just checked it out and we do have freecycling groups here in Sydney - cheers for the tip!
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