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Top 10 strangest throw away items

TOP 10 STRANGEST THINGS PEOPLE THROW AWAY BY HIPPOWASTE™
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If you’re having a spring clean this weekend and are clearing out your loft or garage, you might want to double check exactly what you are throwing away!


A live tortoise, an old mattress stuffed with £5,000, an entire 25 year collection of The Beano and a suitcase full of human skulls are just some of the weird and wonderful items that have ended up in our bins according to a new survey on what people throw away.


National waste management firm HIPPOWASTE™, operators of the HIPPOBAG™, surveyed 100 waste transfer stations and household tips across the country to find the top 10 strangest things people throw away.


The top 10 were:


1. A mattress stuffed with over £5,000 worth of savings left by an elderly lady who had forgotten it was there!


2. An entire collection of The Beano spanning 25 years


3. A suitcase full of human skulls and bones from a biology lab


4. A £3,000 wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses that should have gone to the dry cleaners after the big day!


5. A live tortoise found crawling around the green waste bin and was subsequently reclaimed by its owner


6. An entire man’s wardrobe including golf clubs thrown away by disgruntled wife who discovered he was having an affair


7. Contents of a police evidence bag for a court case


8. Top secret documents and blueprints for a British aircraft carrier


9. A hoax bomb that initiated an army investigation


10. Travel agency takings of £200,000 that was thrown away in black bin liners and required a major recovery operation


Other items identified in the poll included false legs, passports, anti-aircraft shells, the entire Saturday takings of a major shopping centre, old coins from 1820 featuring Queen Victoria and a week’s worth of family washing!


“Waste and how much we throw away is a serious business in the UK but we wanted to do some light-hearted research into what ends up in our bins. This survey has generated some fascinating results and shows that people will literally throw anything away, whether intentionally or by mistake!” explained James Bennett, managing director of HIPPOWASTE™.


Source - http://www.hippowaste.co.uk

www.tomcrawshaw.co.uk

Since he graduated from Loughborough University two years ago with a Graphic Communication degree, Tom has been working at Chameleon, a design agency in Buckinghamshire. He also finds time for freelance work as well as designing and art-directing local magazine The Ride.

“I try to do what’s appropriate,” he says of client work. “It sounds obvious, but it’s very easy to let the style dictate the design, rather than the content.” A fan of the ‘less is more’ ethos, he prefers a “considered, economical approach” and cites Alan Fletcher, Wim Crouwel and Herb Lubalin as major influences. Tom’s typographical interests are evident in his love for print branding and identity work – he has contributed to Accept & Proceed’s A&P logo project, for instance – but he’s equally happy with advertising, packaging and online design.

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With clients including MySpace, NYLON magazine, Glasgow-based design firm After The News and Channel 4, Paul could be described as being in the second phase of his career. “I moved to London four months ago and I’m kicking myself that I didn’t do it sooner,” he admits.

Paul previously lived and worked in Glasgow, graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2003. He began his career selling and exhibiting screenprints in galleries, trying to make it as a ‘real artist’. The resulting publicity and media attention convinced him that he’d rather see his work in print than in a gallery. “I began applying my first love of pencil studies to the same print-making technique through Photoshop,” Paul explains. Now most of his work is for clients in publishing and advertising.

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Christoper Seen

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Research what people throw away

Hi All,

Yesterday evening i was walking towards my car when something lying on the floor next to the garbage room caught my attention.
It was an AKAI AA-6600 solid state amp (mfd. 1971) that looked in excellent condition. It immediately found it's way to the trunk of my car. The funny thing is that whoever threw it away took off the main power plug... They threw away a piece of history with a sound that you simply can't get today but bothered to keep a 30 cent plastic plug...
I've put a new power plug, plugged it in and... it works like a charm. The amp was never opened for repair in 34 years. The screws have no marks, no techinicians warranty stickers... amazing.
One of my friends that is currently using a cheap "Kenwood" amp is about to recieve a very nice gift tomorrow...
I just can't understand these people.
In the last 10 years or so, i got hold of the following in similar ways:
1. Harman Kardon 430 twin powered reciever (early 1970's)
2. Luxman R 1040 stereo reciever (NOS in the box, 1974, for 50$).
3. Sony ST-80 Tuner (late 1960's) - needed minor repair
4. Sony TAN 8550 VFET power amp (1974, outrageously expensive at it's time) - in it's original box
5. Leak mono block 7 watt tube amplifier pair (just needed new tubes and fix a broken wire)
6. Bose 301 speakers (early 1970's) that needed new woofer surrounds and new capcitors for the cross over.
7. Sony walkman Pro (late 1980's).
8. Nakamichi CR-5 cassette deck (needed a minor repair).

All except a few (guess which ones) which i just couldn't give away were serviced and given to my friends to their great joy.
Keep throwing these away people!
just let me know in time where can I pick it up...

common throw aways

common throw aways.

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* A not-too-badly broken bench, that my friend Cathy helped me carry back to my Hoboken apartment from a nearby sidewalk. I repaired and painted it and used it for years, then I put it in the barn in NH, where my brother found it, took it home and used it on his sunporch for years. Then he put it back in the barn, where we refound it, painted it a new color and are now using it as porch furniture in Nottingham. How's that for getting a lot of use out of a broken thing someone else threw away???
* A set of four heavy, nicely made maple captain's chairs, which I took to NH, where they got a coat of oil based paint and are now terrific porch chairs - found in the trash in Clinton, NY.
* A chrome cup holder found in the Swap Shop at the Nottingham, NH dump, oops, I mean 'recycling center'.
* A matching pair of glass (!) candlestick lamps I pulled out of the metal dumpster at the Nottingham dump years ago.
* A very nice wood-framed mirror that had been painted but with minimum effort I refinished - found in a trash pile in front of a house in Clinton, NY.
* A chrome towel rack in a rubbish pile in front of a house on Williams Street in Clinton, NY.
* A set of 12 (12!) ironstone cups and saucers with gold trim, in the Nottingham, NH recycling center glass pile
* A pair of small vintage floral curtains that I sold on Ebay for $40 - found in the trash in an alley in Oxford, Ohio.
* A small antique Sarouk Persian rug, appraised to be worth $400 - found by my father in the trash in a rich Newton, Mass neighborhood.
* A pair of brand new, never been worn Birkenstok clogs - in my size! - found in the Nottingham, NH landfill back in the good ol' days when Nottingham still had an actual landfill you could scrounge around in - sigh...

disposed top ten : Bins

I have to admit: I don't get it. Why would someone throw away something as basically useful and necessary as a kitchen trash can? I found each of these in the trash within just a few houses of where I live, over the course of just a few months. Each time, I assumed that it was broken or cracked, but I went to check it out anyway, because I'm always on the lookout for trash cans in which to pile up my 'green waste' (yard clippings, tree limbs, leaves, etc., that the city turns into compost). But each of these trash cans is fine. I just kept piling them up in my garage, and yesterday I gave them a pretty perfunctory cleaning, and so here they are: 3 perfectly good trash cans. Each one is made by Sterlite, which says something about just how ubiquitous their plastic products are. So, what do you think? Why do people just throw stuff like this away?
As an extension to my research I could look at the steralising subject investigating into the area of how objects may look once cleaned and what they would sell at Ifin full working order as an profit making experiment especially within the current market.

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Jean Paul Sartre

Thinking about health, the theme of the project, we were automatically drawn to this quote by Sartre: "Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident".
It's a sentence that perfectly encapsulates many of the issues at stake: life, death, health, disease. As atheists, we cannot help but see the cruel meaninglessness of it all; a meaninglessness that can be both liberating and depressing. There's an ambiguity in the idea of a life without meaning; an ambiguity that we tried to incorporate in our poster in the form of a pink, day-glo darkness, lurking behind the surface. In short, we used the suggestion of a torn page to show the abyss that exists under the paper. After all, between us and the abyss, there is only the printed page.