Recycling or reusing materials like plastics or glass is certainly nothing new. Everyone is familiar with recycling bins and checking containers for the plastic number. Recycling has however grown from paper and glass into a diversified list of products. E waste being one of the newer trends, a result of our craving for electronic gadgets.
Since I live in Connecticut, reusing or finding new uses for stuff laying around the storage shed in the backyard is a long held tradition. Inventiveness courses through the blood of Connecticut natives.
Take this fine example of reusing all those accumulated plastic bags that every store uses now. What every happened to paper?
This ingenious Connecticut Yankee, needing a light post in the front yard to light the walk, in true Yankee fashion, decided to do the job himself. Apparently electricians are overpaid and unnecessary. This brings up another trend I find in Connecticut, frugality.
Now everyone knows plastic is an insulator, so it follows that using plastic bags to cover wire splices, sealed of course with electrical tape, (safety first) would be okay and a good way to recycle all those plastic store bags. Sure the wire is not the correct type or protected from damage, but the intent is to be admired.
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