A complete garbage plastic trinket. The thing wouldnt even stand on its own. It’s from one of those kids toy boxes at a restaurant.
The waste is what gets me – this thing serves zero purpose.
Blog tag = landfill
Sometimes when I Open my Mailbox…
… I’m surprised there’s any rainforest left.
The Definition of Superfluous
A plastic paper plate holder.
Plastic packaging, to protect a paper box, which holds a piece of plastic, that will likely be used to be buy more plastic.
Straight to landfill, all of this.
An Electronics Graveyard Looks Like This
I keep my laptop in a neoprene sleeve, which I carry in a laptop-specific backpack. I am careful with it, I dust it weekly.
The owners of these likely did the same.
And now…
Zip Drives, remember those?
“No way, I can store 100MB on ONE DISK whaaat!?!?”
And boxes of modems.
A 28.8k modem from US Robotics.
And now, all this is landfill.
This is partly why I don’t swap out my phone often. I’ve had a cel since the 90s, and just 7 phones in total.
(missing is a Palm Treo, a Motorola V60, and my current iPhone 4)
(you bet I wore the StarTAC in its holster, on my hip, like a boss)