Other stuff you don't think about...

So after my garbage audit I looked around the house to find other stuff lurking in hidden places under the stairs, in long forgotten draws and frankly in quite obvious places I had chosen to ignore. We just bought a new bed and the amount of waste the packaging generated was a bit over the top. And after all that polystyrene parts of the bed were still damaged. When something is made a million miles away it's no wonder it gets damaged with all the other beds, wardrobes and furniture stacked up high in warehouses. Anyway now I have a heap of polystyrene piled high.

You could almost say that in some things I am a hoarder. This tendency has arisen in me because I don't want to throw something in the bin and I don't really know what to do with it but I'm sure that there must be some way to recycle it. Essentially what I am doing is procrastinating in finding a solution to this stuff but I don't like to think I procrastinate! My partner, brendan's incesent bugging has finally got me off my butt to do something about it.

Not quite as bad as this fellow!

Previously I was determined to recycle a pile of procrastinated polystyrene I had hoarded since we moved into our new house. Brendan had threatened me with throwing it all in the bin before I finally did something about it. I found the only place in Melbourne where the public can recycle polystyrene. It's in fitzroy on the other side of town. So one day I packed the entire car with ever scrap of polystyrene and drove it to fitzroy. It was a mission and I have vowed to find an easier way this time.

So now I'm thinking about all those furniture stores that accumulate huge amounts of polystyrene and wonder if a truck comes and picks it all up and takes it to the recycling place. Maybe I could drop off my bundle there? Would they let me do this out of the goodness of their hearts? Could there be something in it for them?

So time to be proactive and find out!  Will let you know how I went.

Over and out!

Dirt Girl :)