Feb
17
Went to B&Q yesterday lunchtime and came across a guy in the electrical aisle who had two shopping trolleys full of small cardboard boxes that he’d been taking sockets and things out of. These would be perfect for my junk room for keeping small collections of stuff like screws, cables, etc. in. I asked what happened to those boxes next.
“They go for re-CYcling” he said, proudly toeing the company line.
“Can I have a few?”
“No” said he “they get flat-packed and go for re-CYcling”
O good then. That’s MUCH MORE eco-friendly than just re-using them.
I wandered on, and found that B&Q sell cardboard boxes, too big for my purpose, for £5! £5 for a carboard box!
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B&Q employ morons, who they pay peanuts to. Trouble is, there’s never one around
when you need one
Duh.
Did he have prehensile toes and a sloped forehead by any chance? You may have stumbled across The Missing Link.
Canada has a phrase ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’. It must be
followed in that order. So reduce packaging, if you can’t then reuse,
it not, only then recycle. England needs to think like that too…
specifically B&Q it seems.
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