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Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 09 5:08 pm Post subject: Result. A nice little find.

I took loads of stuff to the council recycling centre today. My load included umpteen telephone directories which I put into one of those metal hexagonal type thingies. As I went upto it to put my stuff in , I could see that it was full to the brim and that there were some books at the top of the pile. My eyes quickly scanned what there was to be seen and then they lit up. I saw this little gem, which i think you'll agree was far too good to be chopped up and made into bog roll. I quickly exchanged my directories for this.

Fair exchange no robbery and it left me with that warm glow of having got something for nothing.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35128
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 09 6:00 pm Post subject:
It's nice when something like that happens. Well spotted!

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 09 6:13 pm Post subject:
There were some cracking books that would have been better off in a charity shop rather than go through the shredder. I just liberated the one.

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Sun Sep 27, 09 7:41 pm Post subject:
I would have liberated every one I could reach and taken them to the hospice book shop,but then Im old enough to wear purple and be naughty.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 09 7:25 am Post subject:
I was frightened of being locked up. There are signs all round the council yard saying that its illegal to liberate what are basically unwanted goods.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 09 7:57 am Post subject:
My local recycling centre used to sort out the good stuff & sell it for pennies (beer money for the workers I expect). Now it's gone corporate & they aren't allowed to do it anymore. Shame, I got garden tools, bike parts, kitchen wares, furniture, useable timber. Thank god for freecycle.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 09 8:26 am Post subject:
On the day that I found the book, a guy came into the council yard with a trailer. I kid you not, when I say that it was full of cut up logs and that he placed them in the skip !

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 09 8:48 am Post subject:
Since our Council tip became a "Recycling Centre" run by a private franchise, everything has to be checked and put into the right skip (fair enough) unless it is electrical (fair enough) or scrap metal (!) which has to be put to one side..........

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42223
Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 09 10:27 am Post subject:

Tavascarow wrote:

My local recycling centre used to sort out the good stuff & sell it for pennies (beer money for the workers I expect).
Now it's gone corporate & they aren't allowed to do it anymore.
Shame, I got garden tools, bike parts, kitchen wares, furniture, useable timber.
Thank god for freecycle.

Ours still does that. We've got most of our brewing gear from there.

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