Moneybox
Philip & Sandra Box
There's all this HoHa about plastic that will pollute the planet for centuries to come.
Lets face it, there's plastic going to waste all over the place. These raquets that Mrs M left in her wake after a tough game of squash are a prime example. Those sort of things are never going to anywhere but landfill. The cost of recycling the plastic would be prohibitive.
I picked up my bucket sieve the other day to screen some sand and the side snapped out of it. Each time I tried to pick it up with gravel inside a chunk snapped off. I managed to get the job done but the bucket part of the sieve had bits missing all around the top. After returning from Capel the other day I noticed Mrs M heading to the bin with my bucket sieve, it didn't last the journey.
Take a look at that pink bucket in the back of the van. It's obviously breaking down and after a few more weeks here it will go the same way that my bucket sieve went.
I heard a strange noise coming from the garden shed. As I approached it I could smell the petrol.
The jerry can had had enough of our Cue weather. The side had cracked in two places but was only spraying a fine squirt of petrol onto the hot shed wall.
I was lucky enough to get there quickly and saved almost all of the petrol but all I had to put it in was another jerry can the same. I don't know if these numbers indicate the manufacture date but in the big scheme of things this plastic is not very old.
While in Geraldton last year I bought a new can of automotive body filler. The can had only been opened once before I opened it today. When I went to unscrew the cap from the catalyst it just crumbled in my fingers but the contents were ok. As soon as I squeezed the tube it cracked from end to end.
Once again this plastic product is relatively new. I think a lot of our plastic products will return to nature long before much of the metal and glass we produce.
Lets face it, there's plastic going to waste all over the place. These raquets that Mrs M left in her wake after a tough game of squash are a prime example. Those sort of things are never going to anywhere but landfill. The cost of recycling the plastic would be prohibitive.
I picked up my bucket sieve the other day to screen some sand and the side snapped out of it. Each time I tried to pick it up with gravel inside a chunk snapped off. I managed to get the job done but the bucket part of the sieve had bits missing all around the top. After returning from Capel the other day I noticed Mrs M heading to the bin with my bucket sieve, it didn't last the journey.
Take a look at that pink bucket in the back of the van. It's obviously breaking down and after a few more weeks here it will go the same way that my bucket sieve went.
I heard a strange noise coming from the garden shed. As I approached it I could smell the petrol.
The jerry can had had enough of our Cue weather. The side had cracked in two places but was only spraying a fine squirt of petrol onto the hot shed wall.
I was lucky enough to get there quickly and saved almost all of the petrol but all I had to put it in was another jerry can the same. I don't know if these numbers indicate the manufacture date but in the big scheme of things this plastic is not very old.
While in Geraldton last year I bought a new can of automotive body filler. The can had only been opened once before I opened it today. When I went to unscrew the cap from the catalyst it just crumbled in my fingers but the contents were ok. As soon as I squeezed the tube it cracked from end to end.
Once again this plastic product is relatively new. I think a lot of our plastic products will return to nature long before much of the metal and glass we produce.
