Hmmmm… what kits provided those sprues? Did that glue bottle dry out early like every one I ever bought or did you get to use most of it? All kinds of forensic interest in that can!
I propose we play I Spy with Kevin’s can and see what we can deduce from the visible evidence there…
Those sprues had unpainted 1/72 scale military figures. Yes, I emptied all the glue bottles. I use a lotof glue fixing lead sheet weights into freight cars.
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Since I use exclusively Kadee trucks, all the kt supplied parts hit the wastebasket.
Yeah, that explains why I’ve got bits of large flange Mirco Trains wheels or bad McHenry couplers in with all my good Train stuff! Also explains why that bad hopper car with a very damaged step is still in my collection, along with that old Athearn blue boxcar with busted coupler boxes!
Not down here. It seems every month we get another announcement that something else cannot go into the recycling bin.
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Any plastic container that cannot be rinsed cannot go it, like the glue bottles. Any other plastic must have the triangle logo and a number 1-7 (I think) to go in, so no sprues and no bottle caps.
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Also… no plastic bags, no pizza boxes, and no cereal boxes (corrugated only).
The recycling movement seems to have run into some challenges here in Canada as well. Apparently the market for selling the stuff has fallen flat. Most of it used to go to China but the Chinese have finally realized how messy and polluting the recycling process really is. Lots of the stuff that we have so dutifully separated into the various bins just ends up in the dump anyhow these days.
Even compost recycling has proven to be a challenge. A few years ago a composting plant was set up in Newmarket. It didn’t go over well. The stench from the process was sickening. I know how bad it was because my office was just around the corner![+o(] They spent a fortune trying to solve the problem but they couldn’t eliminate the odour. Eventually they were forced to shut down. I don’t know where the stuff goes now.
That was my first thought, too, Brent. Around here, the range of acceptable recycling stuff is rather broad, and fairly well embraced by the public. We put out actual garbage perhaps only once a month, as everything else goes in recycling.
Many years ago I worked for an engineering firm which was hired to do a Waste Stream Characterization, aka Dumpster Dive. I never thought I’d ever read about one on a model train forum but here at coffeeclutch forums it’s like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.
I must be an anomaly. Not only do I have a 13-gallon kitchen trash can, but also a 39-gallon trashcan. Now that most of the layout construction is complete, it takes a lot longer to fill up the larger can.
The point I’m trying to make is that both cans get filled up, although my scrap lumber pile/crates are growing. I guess we really DON’T throw things away.
That sounds a lot like me as well. I very rarely throw stuff away, even things that are beyond all hope of repair. Case in point is three old wheels with chips taken out of them that I recently replaced. They could be the beginning of a scrap load or some yard debris.[:-^]
