Dick Durham's blog
Web log entry dated 18 April 2008
Filling holes in the ground with yachts
I recently took a whole load of rubbish to what I still call the local dump, but which now calls itself a re-cycling centre. I went through the rigmarole of separating stuff and depositing it in the correct bins. Then came some bags of stones, earth and grass.
'Stones, earth and grass,' I said, 'where d'you want it?'. The re-cycling 'technical support' officer was called to my bagside by the fluorescent-jacket cladded bin loader who was more interested in tut-spotting.
'Stones, earth and grass?' I repeated. 'Chuck it in the skip, mate,' came the expert's reply. Well it made sense after all it WAS landfill originally!
In Ireland things are a bit different. You can lob whole yachts into landfill sites or at least GRP deck plugs, like this one spotted by blog reader Odette Kelly's dad in Dunboyne, County Meath.
Dick Durham
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