From this …
to this...
is an easy road but one very rarely traveled.
Toxic Waste – in this case – is a very sour candy of some sorts (never actually tried it myself, only tend to find the aftermath of people having used them in a park, including containers left behind) and they come, separately wrapped, in a plastic can such as the one in the picture.
Those containers are, so it is being said, 'collectables' but how many of them do end up, despite of that, in the trash bin? The great majority of them, I wager. Most people would not, probably, consider them any more collectable than, say, a Snapple bottle or the cap of one. And that despite the fact that the Snapple bottle caps do have all those Trivia facts in them.
But why? It is such a shame to waste them as they make great containers and bins for the desk, and thus, also, great little conversation pieces.
When I tend to find them the lids normally are missing (and at times they have been broken as well) and without the lid they are pencil bins and open bins for the desk; with lid, however, such a can could hold also other things.
It is a shame that people do not seem to have the imagination to see the potential in this little container, or in other things that they so thoughtlessly toss into the trash.
I doubt that there is an instruction needed as to how to convert a Toxic Waste can into a pencil bin or such like as it is as simple as “take one empty container, fill with pens and place on desk.”
© 2011
