Recycled? Nae, it all goes in landfill

The Other Half and I recently spent several hours sorting rubbish that accumulated in the steading building since before we bought the croft.

As we folded and bagged plastic livestock feed bags, dug out old 12v and 24v batteries, disinterred drums and bottles of oils, wood treatments and unknown liquids. collected 6V lantern batteries, numerous AA and AAA batteries, and divided metals into ferrous and non-ferrous, we thought we’d do the right thing by taking the stuff we can’t use to Aberdeenshire Council’s recycling point in the village.

It’s manned on Wednesdays and Saturdays, to take rubbish that doesn’t go in the bottle and paper recycling bins and, I presumed, to ensure the rubbish was properly sorted.