Recycling Day Disaster
It was a calm and misty afternoon when I made the decision to put the recycling out a day early, a decision that I would regret that very next morning. After a night of extreme wind, this morning I got “the call” that made my heart sink. My husband informed me that my extremely full to bursting recycling bin had indeed tipped over and that our recycling was now spread over the entire neighbourhood, decorating our street with milk bottles, tins and cereal boxes. Spread so far in fact, that he suggested walking to pick it up may not be a smart idea, he said that I should probably drive and just stop and pick up the rubbish along the way. Now, I know how much recycling I stuffed into that bin. In fact there was over six weeks of recycling in there the potential for disaster was enormous. In my mind I saw two tons of rubbish littered over the entire street. Let me give you a background, we live in a lifestyle rural area which is p...