CARDBOARD

The new units for our kitchen project have come from IKEA. IKEA is cheap because you have to do most of the work in assembling things yourself (this is being done by my brother-in-law, who is a retired carpenter). So everything arrives in packages.

That all adds up to an awful lot of cardboard. Sorting through it all made me realise just how much material is used in packaging. Thankfully, most cardboard is recycled these days, and our local dump has a container specifically for it. Though I have still got to get it there, which will take a number of trips with a full car on Thursday.

Walter Blotscher