Cat and I had a really great find last Friday. Just what I needing to get going with sampling after a good week of drawing. We talked in last weeks tutorial about what other "industrial" materials, other than the nuts and bolts etc., to source. I had a look on Ebay and had a few things in my basket such as orange plastic fencing and wire mesh and scaffolding canvas. It came to quite a lot of money so I hadn't yet confirmed the purchases. Good thing I didn't as I found it all in the skip, and more! One of the builders working on the site came over for a chat and Cat asked if he had any of the orange plastic fencing I was after. I never expected him to, but he went away for a minute or so and came back with a whole roll! I couldn't believe my luck. From the words of Cat 'If you don't ask, you don't get'. So true. I need ask more. It's so weird how these things happen.
I can't believe so much had been thrown away! Some things were still in the packaging. Although it was great for me and Cat, it's not great knowing that such large quantities of perfectly good materials are being thrown away. Not just at this site, but building sites all over the world. I also find it strange that MMU has been awarded 'Greenest University in the UK'. But surely we would only want to contract work to construction companies with similar ethics.
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