Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Trolley 565

This morning I gathered up the two trolleys left over from yesterday in the Kokoro passage. One from the M&S food hall and one from Waitrose, but as they fitted together well enough, I took them back together and score them as one. Disposing of the modest amount of litter therein in the bin provided by the horse trough in the market square. A horse trough presently used as a planter.

There were no Easter eggs in M&S, despite the great piles of them a week ago and BH said it was the same story in Sainsbury's yesterday. So where do they all go? I dare say they get heavily discounted before Easter egg day, but it seems unlikely that they all get sold. Or even given away to staff. Can you recycle chocolate? Eggs possibly, but presumably not more complicated things like chocolates. And what about all the fancy wrappings and foil?

A quick excursion onto the Internet was indicated. The usually helpful BBC did not say how Cadbury's were going to dispose of a huge amount of contaminated chocolate at reference 2, although recycling as food did not seem to be an option. And there was lots of stuff about the packaging and plastic eggs. While the people at reference 3 tell me that chocolate can be fed to pigs in moderation, but not to dogs, with part of the problem with pigs being that they might like it. But I have also learned that chocolate is mainly fat and sugar, which one might have thought could be put to good use, but I have yet to find out what that use might be. 

It was then time to peruse a back number of the Cambridge Independent, a substantial weekly newspaper, with plenty of coverage, inter alia, of transport issues and wheezes - which last Cantabrians are notoriously fond of. Much more substantial than anything that I know of for Surrey, so I must keep an eye out. There must be something better than the freebie which might be called the Comet, and which comes in a slightly different flavour according to where it is being handed out.

An item which particularly caught my eye was a two page advertisement from Nuclear Waste Services, which I now know to be an organ of government, inviting volunteers to host a Geological Disposal Facility - a hosting which would generate all kinds of exciting opportunities. The advertisement gives no clue as to what might be involved.

Reference 4 is not very helpful either and all I learn from the glossy reference 5 is that we only need one of these facilities in the UK - and that the search is on. Which sounds as if we might be twenty years or more away from having it. Sure, we need more nuclear like we need more houses, but nowhere near me thank you very much. Have you tried the Scots? Lots of space up there.

PS: now that trolley capture is picking up again, I am starting to think of a target for year end; maybe 600. If I can do a hundred a year, two a week, I might make the millennium before I give up...

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/04/trolley-564.html.

Reference 2: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5116550.stm.

Reference 3: https://farmingbase.com/can-pigs-eat-chocolate/.

Reference 4: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/nuclear-waste-services/about.

Reference 5: Securing a safer future for us all: Introducing Nuclear Waste Serviced - Nuclear Waste Services - 2020?

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