my broken lamp and other recycled tales
I have a lamp that is broken. I’ve changed the fuse and the bulb (bemused exasperation from my flatmate as I took apart the whole lamp looking for the plug fuse, – readers – the secret’s in the name). Nothing availed. My stubborn lamp remains unfixed.
But I also have an obsession with recycling and Never Wasting Anything. I may be on the OCD spectrum. I want to give you examples but they all sound genuinely concerning now that I’m wording sentences about them in my head.
(That possibly makes it sound worse than it is actually. But I want my five minutes of anonymity).
But my dilemma has reached a happy breakthrough because, as luck would have it, I’ve found these people who can tell me what to do with my lamp, and, socially engaged and environmentally switched-on people, I thought you’d find this enlightening. Plus, it’s a buoyant tale to lift the spirits of all who read it, as another personality tightrope of habitual hoarder vs. compulsive recycler is negotiated and your trusty tale-teller escapes a plummeting existential crisis of enneagram proportions.
www.wasteconnect.co.uk, then ‘household’, and then the ‘recycling facilities search’ – it will find somewhere really pretty near you for anything you’ve got. I’m getting rid of my random old case-less, faceless cds next.
Also, while we’re on it, you can recycle old pairs of glasses with Vision Aid Overseas www.vao.org.uk, or computers at www.computeraid.org (they seem to have specific requirements but you can only give it a look eh)… or in fact anything else to a charity you particularly like if they’ve got shops, http://www.charityshops.org.uk is a kind of online village of charity shops, which incidentally is running a campaign which must be a market research mugshot of my neuroses: ‘donate, don’t waste’.
