RAW Washing Machines

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Ah the memories. All the recon shop owners gathering at Big Phil’s scrap warehouse in Preston, waiting for his wagon to come in.

I’ve bought nearly new machines that were wrote off with a blocked filter. Good old Comet.

Sorry for the hijack, Simon.

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Lol.. i went to the local dump last week to watch two nearly new machines be crushed in front of my face. Why will the council not allow me to buy old scrap machines and insist on crushing them..

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Perhaps because they are worth more as scrap that you would be willing to pay for them Simon.

Or, there’s some crazy H&S thing in the way.

Or, possibly because they are now largely using glass filled polypropylene or other components that, whilst often billed as being “recyclable”, nobody wants. Oh and some can cause environmental harm, so I was led to believe and DEFRA/EA/Whoever seems to think is the case and the danger in that is worse than reworking.

Or, because new products are “more efficient” than old one (yes, I know, only two years old, but the manufacturers claim they’re 30{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} or whatever more efficient) so they will save the polar bears politically as we’re saving all this energy in use. We’ll ignore all the energy cost to make new cr4p, ship it and so on as well as the shortened lifespans because that’s not politically convenient and far too complex for the masses to get a grip of. As opposed to, saving on your leccy bill every month, everyone gets that and it “grows” the “economy” as well… win/win.

Or, there’s something else in there that is going to wipe out the polar bear population, the ices caps and bring mankind to an end as we know it. Which is, of course, a far worse proposition that reworking what we have in order to save all that doom and gloom stuff.

Or, because they can’t sell you “waste” without you having all the proper licences and documentation that’s ticked off and approved by DEFRA and/or the EA. Which, of course, you’ve paid for and all the gubbins to satisfy the legislation and license, that you also have paid for of course.

Or, if you were the cynical sort, you may think that perhaps it stops sales of more “stuff” and there’s a conspiracy of sorts.

Whichever you decide from the above and, you can of course feel free to roll your own theory however, the net effect holds the same outcome in all probability. In that you could say that, legislation and/or interest and/or politics means you can’t do the sensible thing. So, due to that we’re all stuck with the stupidity of crushing stuff that could quite likely be serviceable for a good while beyond its untimely crushing.

How commercially viable that is, well…

Environmentally friendly, it is not.

K.

(Point of note: I would bet the polar bears don’t much care for the finer points of politics or recycling, I believe they prefer raw penguin or a spot of seal tartare)

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Puffins then, perhaps an Arctic fox. 😉

K.