As a nineties pop song says: 'you don't know what you've got until it's gone/it's easy to forget the beauty in someone'. This can be true of machines as well as people. Our reliance on technology is fairly hefty as was evidenced to me when power went out at the Union last night. I'm currently in the IC as the fire alarms haven't been sorted out yet in the Union building.
However, technology isn't the only thing we sometimes take for granted. For example, when I put paper in the recycling bin in the sabb offices it's easy not to think about the person who has to come and take away what I've discarded.
I spent a morning with the Union porters yesterday and part of the job was collecting things left in recycle bins and then sorting it ready for pick up. I met the two yard assistants that the Union employs to go through all the bottles collected in the bottle banks in Bar One and take out all the plastic they find so the glass will be ready for collection by the recycling company.
The porters showed me a lot of other stuff too, but I'm just highlighting the recycling aspect as it is easy to have all the will towards better recycling facilities without having to consider the logistics of sorting it out. Not that I'm discouraging people having a will towards recycling, I'm just encouraging people to realise there's a lot going on behind the scenes to make it possible.
Till next week, when I'll hopefully be writing this from the office,
Pete
By the way, if anyone knows the artist and title of the song quoted at the beginning then I'll give you a lollipop.
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