The Mobile Phones -2

Recycling, the blue recycling bin, is possibly the worst environmental blow to hit Toronto – and maybe your city – in the past thirty years. “It’s not garbage” is a perpetual cry from the environmental side. In these pages I will bring you examples of WHY this “Blue Bin” mentality should be stopped. Sadly, I’ll be competing against an entrenched multi-million dollar program of indoctrination.

Here’s is another Panasonic set, this time a base unit and a mobile unit.

An as-new Panasonic KX-TG5422 .

Scooped out of the same recycle bin as TheMobilePhones.doc .

It takes proprietary rechargeable batteries, and was charged when I plugged it in.

Looks to me to be in “new” condition.

Why is it tossed out?

So what was wrong with it?

Both units work.

Sigh.

Postage-Stamp Sheet Borders

The customized postage stamps are used up.

The sheet is near-empty.

There’s a bit of blank space on the top border of the adhesive sheet, but there’s LOTS of blank space down the sides and across the foot.

Chop up the blank pieces to make handy adhesive labels.

Here is where I will use mine: I date-stamp cartridges as I load them into my laser printer.

Or I could use them to label jars of bottled pears!

Cutting-Strip from Paper Roll

The roll of waxed-paper or foil or cling-film is finished.

The oblong cardboard container is torn up into scraps for the vermicomposter.

What to do with the serrated metal strip, about a foot long, that used to cut the paper into chunks?

Easy!

It makes a superb extra-strong long twist-tie for heavy cables!