street stuff

auckland has this very cool thing where once or twice a year your street will be nominated for an ‘inorganic waste’ collection.  the weekend before the week you have to put all the rubbish that wouldn’t normally be allowed in the rubbish bin (the stuff you’d take to the refuse tip in the UK).

for a few days the streets look completely messy, except they are full of fantastic things.  And there are rag and bone type people going round collecting anything which can be repaired or sold or melted down.  so by the end of the weekend there really is very little left.  it’s an excellent scheme.

they are also really clear that anything you put out will end up in a landfill (unless it get taken away by a passing opportunist) so people can think twice about what they put out.

i like the mixture of official and unofficial recycling that goes on.  and the glorious mess that exists for a few days.

wordymungus

sometimes it’s nice to take photos of things which actually are boring, rather than boring things which are actually quite exciting.

i took this photo a few weeks back before it got really cold.  i particularly like how he’d organised himself with his shoes neatly lined up and even a bed side table with tray and drink.  lovely stuff

it’s a funky street embassador