an invention waiting to happen..

Use the brother of the angle grinder: the pressure washer.

Thomas Prufer

In message , jim writes

:-)

There is a little niggle of doubt in my mind about the concept of recycling where the labour and energy costs far exceed the recovered value.

Finite resource and disposal space excepted, I question the importance of expensively rinsing plastic for expensive collection/sorting and eventual conversion to products displacing renewable wood.

I think combustible waste should be burned, flue gas scrubbed and the energy usefully used.

They are recyclable around these parts. Brian

In message , Brian Gaff writes

And here, Brian.

I was just whinging about the inconvenience of removing the food residues prior to putting in the appropriate bin.

In hot, metered, water.

I certainly think a large proportion of recycling is a waste of time, effort, money and energy.

So don't bother.

Indeed, we have a lot of our recycling delivered daily. More effort should be spent on stopping Virgin Media from doing this. Four copies of the same A4 glossies to Flats 1, 2, 3 & 4. There are no flats, and have not been for 25 years.

People grow trees, mash them up, print on them, deliver them to my house where I put them in the recycling. The Smash Martians must be pissing themselves.

Cheers

Check your local phone boxes for cards advertising Romanians with tongue skills.

Owain

Great concept - what else would the Smash Martians piss themselves about? I think they would find the Shadow Mask CRT rather entertaining.

Life is full of minor inconveniences. I don't heat water specially to wash food residue, it just goes in the bowl last. Last week my neighbour combined all their family waste in black bin bags. Clearing that lot up when the foxes had finished their inspection took a lot longer than any recycling routine

You don't live with my wife!

Eh? Here in Treznal the plastic gets as clean as, say, a spoon will get a yogurt container, and then it gets tossed into the bin "plastic" (ok, "Kunststoffe"). Or the one for "Metall", or the green/brown/clear glass containers. None of that needs to be cleaner than what one would put in the trash anyway. So an oil bottle should be empty but for a few drips, a pickle jar free of most of the mustard seeds and stuff (dill?), but "the label left on" and "drips of pickle water" is fine. "Paper" for recycling is clean paper, greasy pizza packaging is "trash". (My experience may be local, because most of Germany is part of the "Duales System" where you chuck all packaging into a yellow bag and some industrial process tries to extract resources and value from that mess.)

I though you were going to reuse the plastic containers: I get yogurt in little one-kilo lidded buckets that are made of thick white plastic, seal well, and resist heating and freezing. Also good for paint, up to and including solvent paint, up to and including lacquer thinner. But they have this rolled edge that means there in no orientation in which water does not collect in the dishwasher...

Thomas Prufer

But she's away at present so won't know!

When CRT is all you got, a shadow mask makes perfect sense.

That's what the dog is for, silly.

But the grandkids will tell her as soon as she returns and he will be in the dog house for life.

If you want to dishwash them, just put a tile on top of them. Sometimes a few suitably placed kitchen implements works too. Small ones can go on their side, held in position by a cup handle.

NT

Yes. Requires ingenuity. My last effort ended with am Elmlea tub, carefully positioned over a plate spacer, filling with water and finding its way through the rack; jamming the bottom disperser.

The Natural Philosopher wrote in news:ncjugl$itj$ snipped-for-privacy@news.albasani.net:

I realise - but with hindsight it is amazing that we ever got it to work.