A trip to the dump is one of my great pleasures in life â and Iâm not alone
âThe gruff camaraderie, the clang of rubble against metalâ: Richard Godwin, locked and loaded. Photograph: PÃ¥l Hansen/The Observer
âThe gruff camaraderie, the clang of rubble against metalâ: Richard Godwin, locked and loaded. Photograph: PÃ¥l Hansen/The Observer
Everything has its place at the dump, no matter how abject or broken. No wonder there were queues when it reopened after lockdown
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A couple of miles from my home, down on the other side of the motorway, in a semi-industrial scrubland of building-supply merchants, gearbox specialists and a mysterious warehouse called Limbs and Things, lies the Household Waste Recycle Centre. At least, the council calls it the âHWRCâ; everyone else calls it the dump. I have visited this enchanted acre seven or eight times this past year, and I always emerge feeling happy and serene. I see it as m
My Turn: Nightmarish prophecy of a great world of plastic now a manifest
Fortune magazine declared, in this cover story in October 1940, that the United States had entered the Plastic Age. Chris Mullen/fulltable.com
In 1940, we entered the Plastic Age, declared Fortune magazine in its prophetic October issue.
Writers and graphic artists swooned at the rapid evolution of miraculous new plastics, and hailed them for their vibrant color, lightness, versatility, malleability and durability. They forecast a time when practically anything could be pressed, squeezed, rolled, sawed, drawn, cast, or carved from plastic even cars and houses.
Feverishly, the Fortune writers and artists mapped a “synthetic continent of plastics,” where the cardinal points were those of the chemical compass carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen. Its plastic countries included Melamine, Petrolia, Cellulose (“something like Texas”), Acrylic, and Phenolic, “the greatest plastic country of all a h
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Archaeologists just found a lot of plastic at an archaeological site
More than 2,300 pieces of plastic were found in a digging site in Wales.
There’s plastic everywhere. We’re living in a plastic age, and we see this every day around us: on the ground, in the seas, even in the air we breathe and that’s not even it. Now, researchers have even found plastic (including a Godzilla thermos wrapper) inside an archaeological site.
The roundhouses that were demolished. Image credit: The researchers
Located in Wales, Castell Henllys Iron Age Village is an archeological site and a tourist attraction. It’s essentially an Iron Age fort with reconstructed roundhouses that visitors can walk through while learning about history. The roadhouses were reconstructed on the same spot where the original structures stood around 2,000 years ago.