Disadvent 18
Dec. 18th, 2023 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraNo disadvent yesterday, I was, a bit ironically, too busy getting things ready to leave my house. (I feel like holiday mailing isn't really quite the spirit of disadvent. Although I suppose I do stash takeout containers all year for packing up the baked-goods-for-relatives part of the mailing, and it's exciting to get to get them out and deploy them and find out if I saved the right sizes and quantities, so maybe that does count.)
Anyways, today I am counting a hand-me-down rain jacket with a flaking lining. Probably I should have gotten rid of that thing ages ago, before it had one more chance this morning to shed tiny nylon dandruff all over my clothes, the front hall, and the car I had just cleaned a few days ago, but now was clearly the best time remaining. (Except, ugh, I was going to throw it out, but maybe by law it has to go to textile recycling? So I have to go dry it out in the basement so that it's dry enough to go in the bin? Blaaah. Is "I feel sorry for whoever has to process it" a legal justification for putting it in the trash instead? I think the law has exemptions for "mold, bodily fluids, insects, oil, or hazardous substances"... I've been throwing out dust cloths and certain cleaning cloths (the whole point of using old holey socks for such things imo is that you can just toss them if they're too gross to want in your laundry). I think I am going to throw it out, it just feels shitty to ask someone to process it who won't know that the stuff it's shedding is just the lining and might have to wonder if they just got chemical-exposed. Sorry, well-intentioned state law.)
Anyways, today I am counting a hand-me-down rain jacket with a flaking lining. Probably I should have gotten rid of that thing ages ago, before it had one more chance this morning to shed tiny nylon dandruff all over my clothes, the front hall, and the car I had just cleaned a few days ago, but now was clearly the best time remaining. (Except, ugh, I was going to throw it out, but maybe by law it has to go to textile recycling? So I have to go dry it out in the basement so that it's dry enough to go in the bin? Blaaah. Is "I feel sorry for whoever has to process it" a legal justification for putting it in the trash instead? I think the law has exemptions for "mold, bodily fluids, insects, oil, or hazardous substances"... I've been throwing out dust cloths and certain cleaning cloths (the whole point of using old holey socks for such things imo is that you can just toss them if they're too gross to want in your laundry). I think I am going to throw it out, it just feels shitty to ask someone to process it who won't know that the stuff it's shedding is just the lining and might have to wonder if they just got chemical-exposed. Sorry, well-intentioned state law.)
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Date: 2023-12-18 10:26 pm (UTC)It's illegal not to recycle textiles? That seems a little ridiculous. :^(