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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 5, 2022 18:32:45 GMT
when you do kick the bucket and fall face down in the mashed taters, your kids had best hope you haven't thrown away a thing; the more junk the better. What you do is have an Estate Sale; with the proceeds from that, you can have a big thirty-eight-hundred-dollar rock instead of the six-hundred-dollar one the kids had in mind. You can be put away in one of those satin-lined Walnut and Brass caskets with a mural of flying geese on the inside of the cover instead of the plastic and aluminum economy version they had picked out. For this to really be successful, you need enough junk to fill a four-page flyer and keep two auctioneers busy from 10:AM 'til 4:PM Some idiot will fight another idiot to buy those floppy disks for a ridiculous price. That old Shop Vac with the motor-brushes burnt out will fetch more than you paid for it new. I might save this and show it to the kids! HA HA HA ! Too funny. Love this. Thanks for warming a bitterly cold day.   |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 5, 2022 18:34:39 GMT
This thread is sort of like confession! Thanks for everyone's input. Good fun.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 5, 2022 19:01:04 GMT
Our trash collection company won’t take paint cans Alberta has a had a good paint collection system for many years. No charge to drop off old paint cans at recycle and garbage centers. Some still-usable paint is recycled. I think the paint cans are incinerated (high temps) and then the metal recovered. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 5, 2022 19:07:47 GMT
We have had several so-called recycling companies get huge government grants to go into the recycling business and they always end up getting caught taking all of that "recyclable" stuff to a common landfill; Our small town did not due proper investigation (due diligence) when they contracted with a so-called "recycling" company in 2013. We were paying ~$550 USD/ton ($658CAD/metric tonne) to have them pick up our so-called recycling materials. At the time the landfill fees were ~$60USD/ton! They did recover cardboard and the rest (most) was treated as garbage and SHIPPED TO CHINA for burning or dumping before China stopped that nonsense. Utter insanity in the name of saving the planet. Recycling has a place but as many jurisdictions are finding out a lot of so-called recyclables have zero (or negative) value. i.e., a lot of it is simply garbage. |
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