More procrastination

The sun is setting and i'm imbibing the camomile tea. I've done most chores, apart from the laundry and the hoovering. We recycled today. Because we didn't take the bins out week before last, it was overflowing so we had to the dump to go.

Recycling centres are things of beauties these days. Previously they were places which only mad people who put their bottles and tins aside used to go to. The staff were resentful of this new fangled idea of recycling and most people used it as a glorified dump. I am still not fully convinced that the whole recycling thing is being done properly. Where does all our recycled stuff go to? If it does leave our shores then does it end up as a dump somewhere else? I watched this terrifying documentary called Blood, Sweat and Luxuries and it was terrifying for all the unadulterated horror it showed people in Africa and India and Bangladesh were living in - and for the complete ignorance of the people who went along. Interestingly they were made to also work on the product - like the mines, or coffee or leather or rice... and live with the workers. It was like a hardcore Oxfam conscientisation programme.

Anyhow, it showed TVs and computers and all items affected by the WEEE directive ending up in a rubbish dump in in Ghana's capital city Addis Abbaba, is that it's capital? and children were picking through, breaking up and melting plastic wires to get the copper from the wires. It was unspeakably horrific. I watched The Road a few months ago, and these children were living in that landscape - with no parents, at least there was a father who loved the boy.

I should do the laundry now.