DUSTBIN day used to be just that. Bins out. Everything gone. Even if you ran a business.
Nowadays, though, I bemoan the complicated trade waste system that Sake commercial and, I'm sure, many other small businesses have to endure.
It was niggling problems with the system which set me off on this rant. Indeed, there was almost steam coming out of my ears by the time it was all sorted out. Because precious time, that we didn't have, was exactly what it took.
A Sake team member was audacious enough to pop out a plain black bag with rubbish in it. There were immediate complaints from surrounding folk when it lay there, forlorn, uncollected.
Because, of course, any old black bag won't do. It has to be paid for in advance at the firm which will then collect it
But we'd run out of bags. By mistake. So helpful Harriet used her initiative and found an ordinary black bin bag. To save there being a pong in the workshop over the weekend.
Which wasn't good enough. Recyclables should go in one firm's lettered bags and real residual rubbish to another firm in its clearly labelled sacks.
Argh! I wished I'd just taken it home and put it out with the domestic refuse. Which, of course, would have been illegal. But is done by some. I know because they've told me.
It's not that I'm not green. I'm all for recycling. But it's going at it from the wrong end. For Pete's Sake, let's just use less.