I’ve got a great idea that could help our environment. We already recycle so many things but I’ve found a wonderful resource that seems to be completely untapped at this point.
If we want to recycle more glass products I’d suggest sending someone with an industrial strength vacuum cleaner up to the bike path that runs alongside Hepburn Avenue in Perth’s northern suburbs.
I needed to go to a meeting in the suburb of Kingsley a couple of afternoons ago. As I cycled along I could hardly believe the amount of broken glass on the cycleway. The mind boggles at how so much glass could find its way there. Are people doing this on purpose because they don’t like cyclists? Are the locals particularly clumsy? Is it simply an accumulation brought on by the fact that the local council has never bothered to clean the pathway?
I did my best to dodge the very frequent patches of shattered glass but I eventually found another way to collect the glass other than the industrial strength vacuum cleaner. I was about to cycle to work yesterday morning and found a small shard of glass in my back tyre. It didn’t slow things down too much. A quick tube change and I was on the road again but I could have done without it. I’m actually amazed that I didn’t collect even more pieces.
I’m increasingly becoming a big fan of plastic bottles.
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“particularly clumsy” – that´s a good one! 🙂
The other day I took the cycle path that follows the road around a very narrow corner. Guess where the broken glass-bottle was… Surprisingly I was very lucky, there were no pedestrians and I really didn´t collect a piece.
But I was wondering, too, why here?
I really do wonder why there is so much glass about, Iris. There’s also a lot on the roads but nothing compared to what was on the cycleway.