Sunday, 5 March, 2006

We decided to not be so cultural this weekend and went to IKEA. The trip up there means that you leave the city center and end up in the outskirts of London, very near a very unfinished Wembley stadium. One of the things that always surprises me is the amount of trash we see when we go there. When you walk on overpasses and along sidewalks, any industrial estate that is not currently in business is full of cans, bottles, etc. (In central London, there are constantly bin men picking up rubbish, vacuuming the sidewalks, sweeping the sidewalks, etc.) One of the things that was very beneficial about the exhorbitant CA redemption value in San Diego was that it was income for anyone who was willing to go around and collect cans. In fact, the dumpster behind our last place always had dumpster divers looking for aluminum money. We had our very own recycling service. Here that is definitely not the case. In fact, as we were walking across one of the bridges, we came across this scene (shot with Samsung D600). Note the can perched on top of the TV.