What chore do you find the most challenging to do?

Although most household chores can be a bit tedious recycling has got to be top of the challenging pile these days. It started optimistically as a responsible way to help save resources and reduce ever growing quantities of waste but when you get down to the nitty gritty is literally littered with difficulties.

Can’t be that hard right? Three bins, a black one for landfill or incineration, a green one for recycling and another one for composting. But wait, first read the small print on every package, tin and jar decipher the little symbols, sort and separate. Rinse clean and dry stuff, bag and label electricals, batteries completely separate.

Or repurpose? Plastic tubs and bags can come in useful. but they accumulate! Jars and bottles for homemade preserves, pickles and cordials. Oh, and clothes too. Since Covid the recycling bins in car parks have faded away, and no more shoddy, polyester doesn’t decompose, so … rag rugs?

There is another kind of chore, even more challenging and it occurs to me connected, in that chored is English slang for stolen, and this particular domestic chore is such a robber of time.

A trailer for an English social drama film offers a deeper dive into the world of a waste recycling scrap merchant.

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