Hi Renee, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mike, you do amaze me. > You are right--it's a shame the store owners can't see beyond > their ledger. > There are so many appliances thrown out that have simple fixes. > For a person with a wage it's almost the same price to buy a new > one as to get a repair man to fix it, so that's why there's such > great waste in this country Renee, you really have hit my hurt button. Most of the time, there is very little wrong with these appliances. The door switch on a dryer may be worn out. It is made of plastic. A new one may be worth 10 cents, and cost 10 dollars at the appliance store. It may take 5 or 10 minutes to replace. But most of the used dryers I find waiting for disposal have nothing wrong except the door switch has failed. The appliance salesman could fix it while you had a cup of coffee. Or it could be the drive belt has failed. This might take 15 minutes to fix if you were really slow about taking the dryer apart. But then he would lose the commission, and the store would be out a sale. So for a 10 cent part, a family has to spend $500 or a thousand dollars, and perhaps go into debt because the kids diapers need to be cleaned. They have no choice in the matter. The same thing happens with microwave ovens. There is a 10 amp fuse inside that takes all the brunt of starting the magnetron. After some years, the fuse simply gives up and quits. This is well known. But the microwave doesn't work anymore. The salesman could fix it in less than ten minutes, and send the happy customers home with a new fuse. But he won't. He will convince the victim the appliance is beynd repair, and can only go to the dump. Instead, they go home with a new $400 microwave and another load of debt. My heart cries whenever I see some poor family saddled with debt they do not need, for a problem that is trivial to fix. > I had read where many restaurants in the larger cities would allow > the homeless to take food out from the back of their ktichens. > This was food that would be wasted as people in the restaurant > didn't finish it. LOL! I used to live on that food! It was the only way I could survive > Otherwise it was perfectly good food. But--the law said "oh no, > you can't do that, someone might get sick. You MUST throw that > food away" So the restaurant owners got together to figure out a > way around this. What they came up with was a great idea--they'd > put the food into take out containers, and then carefully set > these sealed containers ON TOP of the trash in the bins. Then, > they weren't redistributing "used food', simply throwing out their > trash! I hit the restaurents just before they closed. They would let me stand at the counter and wolf down whatever I could before they had to close. Then they would throw the rest away. > But the waste is incredible. Years ago my Mother took a short > stint in the grade school cafeteria, just to have something to do. > She said she felt really bad one day as this little boy came up > and asked if there were any extra hot dogs he could have, as > that's what was served that day, because he was still hungry. The > "fresh" dogs were all gone, but there were some untouched ones on > a couple plates so she gave him those. > She was pulled aside later and told never to do that again, that > it broke the law. She said--but he was hungry! They said--too bad. > Nothing gets taken off one plate to be put on another plate! > And I had 3 dogs so one day Mom asked them if she could bring me > home all that wasted scrap food that was scraped from hundreds of > luncheon plates. > The in charge person said she could have it that one time, but > never again because "it's the law--no food is to leave this unless > it's as garbage, in the garbage can, and can't even be eaten as > pet food"!! > Simply unbelievable. > But it's heart warming to hear of folks like yourself, who go out > of their way to help others in need, without expecting any reward. The food problem is perhaps a bit more complicated. There may be some parts that go bad, such as fish or eggs. Then the person could die from a salmonella infection. So the health departments may have no real choice but to ensure the food is disposed of properly. In my case, I usually went after pizza. Pepperoni never goes bad:) > Thank you. >Samala, >Renee Best Regards, Mike Monett SilverCell -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
