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Stuff in its place
RECYCLING raises interesting psychological issues. Feedback recalls the London Borough of Tower Hamlets some years ago deciding to issue households with one bag for all recyclable waste – so we no longer had to sort out paper, glass and different kinds of plastic.
A neighbour was most put out. Her native tongue was, as it happened, German. She had been deprived, it seemed, of the chance to sigh contentedly “Alles ist in Ordnung” as she filed the last piece of no-longer-wanted stuff in its…
