Load o' Rubbish!

A full load or rubbish at that! and in the back end of the street sweeping motor! All your favourite products can be found in this filthy chamber of needless packaging. Products range from beer cans, mattresses, Tamagochis, grape stems and half-completed sticker albums. You name it, it'll have found its way in here at some point!

The TEG Shed - The Business End of Green Waste Recycling!

This machine crunches up bits of old gardens and sieves it into finer batches, which is used as compost and in part, given back to the public for free at Friarton Depot Public Recycling Centre - the home of Garbologist HQ! It really is the business end of green waste recycling, literally thousands of bins worth of waste ends up in here at Binn Farm, Glenfarg. Its amazig to see the process of recycling through so may stages!

Weighing in the Green Waste Motor!

This document shows the weight of the green waste motor PD 12 as its weighed up at Binn Farm, Glenfarg, before being tipped in the 'teg' shed, recycled and then given back to the land! The reading on the first tip today was roughly 11 tonnes, which saw the days tally reach just shy of 20 once the second load was on. Theres only a certain amount of chrysanthenums the motor can take at one time!

Up Yer Game, Alan Titchmarsh!

The aptly named 'Rocket' does exactly that out of Garbologist HQ vegetable boxes! Closely followed is Cucumber, who is showing potential in the outdoor boxes, also outdoor, Basil shows initial strength alongside Chives and Thyme. For now though, still eating pop tarts and irn bru bars until the plants are ripe to reap!

Controls in the Street Sweeping Motor!

The layout of various components in the street sweeping motor. Note the symmetry, storage options and 'championing the local radio station' Perth FM on the selection, blasting out all sorts of obscure records and local tattle over the P&K districts airwaves!

Find of the Fortnight?

Find of the Fortnight or Foliage of the Fortnight? or both? Ozzy from PD 2 spotted this up on the Kinnoull beat last week, a rare double blossom of white and pink blossom on the same tree! Here, he happily points the 'Find' out, framed nicely on the side with a 240 litre wheelie bin full of DMR (Dry Mixed Recycling) ready to be tipped into the motor and recycled down Friarton Depot!

PD 2: Just For You!

A solid motto for a solid crew! The PD 2 crew pose for a 'mean business' photo on front of the motor on the Kinnoull and Gannochy beat last Thursday. Artie, Ozzy and Martin are sure to feature as PD Poster-Boys on Garbologist Newsletter Issue 3, due early June. Keep your eyes peeled, although not in newsagents or similar retail outlets.

Garbologists Event: Scottish Biodiversity Week!

The SNH kindly suggested we host an event for Biodiversity week, which is beginning 15th May. We will be on site on Monday 17th from 9-5, and will be available to discuss how art can exist in the working environment of bin men and street sweepers, and our general activities. On Monday we will be re-planting our (slightly) failed attempt at vegetable gardening! Come for a visit if youre dumping stuff at Perth Recycling Centre on Monday!

Not Acquired on Expenses!

No sir, no dodgy politicians up at Garbologist HQ claiming duck pond mini-mansions or such the like, just a delighted skip site worker in the shape of Tom with his new bird table! Cheers to Tom for all the seeds he has donated to be planted in the garden area and window boxes at HQ, this bird box was a wee gesture built today to return the favour! Funnily enough, it was built from wood Tom had rescued and donated to HQ anyway! Here he is holding it high like a certain world cup trophy, which, alas, will pass by the hawnds of the not-s0-mighty-at-the-moment Scots once again.

A 'Hive' (or bike) of Activity

Confirmed! Wasps have breached the hull of Garbologist HQ. There's been a fair bit of buzzing about in the shed lately, and when work was being done in the on building a bird hut today, this wee beast fell off the underside of the workbench! After being disposed of, the wee buggers kept coming back in their numbers, forcing all actions to be performed in the yard outside HQ. Its only a matter of time before some hapless Garbologist meets a stingy end while working tirelessly to fuse art and recyling!