this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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Not only that but people use to place up fournitures and old stuff salvageable outside, on visible spot, for people needing it when it would be time for heavy trash pick up what would be left would be taken away. Now local authorities have defund heavy trash pick and worked very hard at rebranding this as littering. It start to affect the way people act: now they get rid of trash. Salvageable things mixed with literal rubbishes and broken unfixable stuff.
I recently found out about a local non-profit which collects scrap unused building material. Then it gets stored until someone needs it. You can’t just be a taker though.. they keep track of who gives what so if you give something you then have an allowance to take stuff. It’s a kind of bartering. It works around the hard-ass repair/hobbyist-hostile municipalities like yours.
Nice concept.