Green Centre

A year or 2 back, the Moray Council set up an appliance recycling place in Buckie. They fenced off a piece of land on an industrial estate, put up some polytunnels and advertised in the local paper for people to work there. I don’t know how the scheme worked or if it was a failure but they seem to have dropped that idea and the place is now a charity shop, selling mostly furniture. I’ve kept meaning to take a look in there but I’m usually on my way to a job when I go past. This week I did go in and it’s mostly stuff you would take down the tip, battered ’50s and ’60s wardrobes etc. Most of the items had 2 prices marked on them, retail price and “Benefit” price. There were no washing machines but there were cookers and dishwashers. What tickled me was that the dishwashers also had a price for benefit customers, typically a third of the retail price. Perhaps a dishwasher is now viewed as essential to civilised living , not a luxury item? I’ve managed without one since I first got my own home in 1981 and I daresay I will carry on doing washing up the old fashioned way.