The strange things you see..

[Just Plain Curt]

Found while walking along a strip of shoreline which used to house a grain elevator, soon to be a 50 Million dollar marina expansion project.



Any guesses? Try three safes with their doors removed for safety. If you took the time to remove the doors, why not remove the safes as well? Kodak Easyshare C340.

[Reiska]

Not very enviromental friendly. My guess is, that the value or the interest is in the doors not in the cases it self. Somebody was in the need of a DOOR


Regards

[PeterW]

Hi Curt,
My guess is that there's a local law which says that things like refrigerators, safes etc must not be left out, or put out for salvage collection with the doors on. We have a similar law here. The reason is to prevent any chance of a child or children playing with them and one of them getting locked inside.

I reckon whoever dumped them had at least a conscience, and the doors were easier and cheaper to dispose of properly than the whole safes - unless the doors were fly-tipped somewhere else.

Either that, or a salvage merchant was paid to take them away, but illegally fly-tipped them after taking the doors off for the same reason. We get some of that where the nearest proper recycling plant for some items is quite a few miles away.

A legal example: We used to have a plastics recycling plant about 45 miles away, but that has now closed and amalgamated with another one about 150 miles away. Our local council has now announced that it will not be collecting plastic bottles, jars, boxes etc separately because taking them for recycling is now too expensive and uses more natural energy resources in fuel to take them there than it saves. Also many plastics nowadays are classed as 'degradable'. Householders are now told to put them in with normal household refuse which goes to landfill tipping sites.

They still collect glass bottles and jars, and paper and cardboard, separately for recycling. They even provide free really strong plastic crates for householders to use for this, and collect them once a week on a separate day from normal household refuse.

About a mile from me the council have a public refuse disposal site, very clean and well organised, with separate huge compactors for people to dump metal, paper and cardboard, rags, glass, garden refuse (clippings, prunings, lawn mowings etc) and general degradable household refuse plus huge barrels for old motor oil and small compounds for old car batteries, and TVs or crt computer monitors because of the danger of the acid and the flourescent material inside the tubes (CRTs also implode with quite a bang if a compactor plate hits them, showering glass everywhere).

Local people seem very environmetally minded, there's always quite a queue of cars with people waiting to dispose of separated refuse every Saturday and on Sunday mornings.

PeterW

[herron]

Most folks I know are environmentally-minded any more. We have similar laws about removing the doors of appliances. We also have to pay to have the freon removed from old refrigerators - and if you don't have the "official" sticker applied, the trash folks won't touch it (even though you have to pay them extra to haul it, too).

All that being said, we do have some rural roads out here that occasionally see things dumped into the ditches. Some people will lose all sense of environmental concern (and kid's safety) when considering the $75 it is going to cost to get rid of an item!