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Everything needs a deposit...

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Blog; Published: 07 December 2024; Hits: 333

And this, the realization a little late, all the garbage that I sort through and throw away at the thrift shop. Tons, daily, and this - one of tens of thousands across the country. Perfectly good glassware, only we have a hundred more of the same on the shelves that aren't selling, the same with clothes, pots, pans, everything you can imagine we get 10X, 100X more than we can process or ever hope to sell, however discounted it is.

Everything is made to be thrown away.

Some things - aluminum cans, glass - well, they're not such a problem.

Plastics, electronics, synthetic fabrics, that's another story.

Everything needs a deposit. I mean everything. Nothing should be sold that can not be returned for a deposit. A wine or drink glass, maybe 10 cents. A plastic cup, 25 cents. A stove, fridge, TV - anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of dollars - depending on the cost of recycling it. Cars? Deposit required.

And all the deposit money, paid back to the companies that manufacture it, when they've successfully re or upcycled it.

The landfills, they'll be the next gold mines. I mean, even in the gilt edged plates and china that i throw away daily there's grams per tonne, enough to make it commercially viable, let alone the other precious metals and rare earths.

Assassinations...

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Blog; Published: 07 December 2024; Hits: 393

The news that an Top American Healthcare CEO was assassinated in New York, all over the news, the major news outlet doing their best to try and persuade the public that a heinous crime has been committed...

Of course, no, and the numbers of "Thumbs Up", "Smiles" and "Laughing Emoji" that appeared almost immediately gave a very different reaction from the public.

The public, of course, being more than a little tired of being F*cked over by Insurance Providers, are not having it.

It is one of the more amusing and upbeat (sorry to say) news stories of the past year. Since, I would say, the "Rub-a-dub-dub 5 Men in a Sub..." story of last year.

And so it's coming to pass. People are realizing the institutions meant to safeguard them and their rights are too busy fleecing and profiteering to give a damn, and are - slowly, too slowly - taking matters into their own hands.

But, god damn, look at the politics and potential targets down there, enough entrenched corruption to keep a John Wick's entire army busy for years...

Nonetheless it's a start...

B*****

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: People; Published: 06 December 2024; Hits: 107

...and I just heard - via Facebook, of one of our more charming homeless local's unfortunate demise. B*****, met her some 6 or so years ago, just becoming an addict. An abortion she didn't want and no ability to process the trauma.

When I met her she was housed, then soon enough not, always pleasant, usually after a fashion sober - but her habits were probably more nocturnal and done away from the madding crowds and main streets. A victim, one of three, a couple of weeks ago, the "bad batch" the police posted a warning about.

You'd run into her, in the niche in the alley outside my back door, sweeping it out, organizing the trash, pulling weeds, setting up house for a few hours. Notes written on signboards to her. She was pretty and popular.

So to read of her death was a bit of a shock, no obituary, but the street agencies did a celebration of life for her, and the comments on Facebook, almost a hundred, all kind. A decent person laid low by circumstance and trauma.

The other two, I don't know, maybe locals but I've heard nothing, there are so many itinerant homeless on the streets that it's hard to say, did they move on, or did they become statistics? I should start volunteering at the soup kitchen, it would keep me more in the loop...