You can find hidden treasures everywhere....
Here in Wales, although a relatively small country and with a population small than the city of London, we try and do our bit for the environment and recycle as much as we can.
(Eunomia - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/germany-recycles-more-than-any-other-country/)
Wales, which does well overall, includes significant amounts of rubble in its recycling rate, despite it not being consistently counted as a type of municipal waste across Europe. Wales had a reported rate of 64%, which Eunomia downgraded to 52%.
(Eunomia - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/germany-recycles-more-than-any-other-country/)
So as you can see, we love to recycle stuff!
A short drive from my house is my local munisipal recycling centre. This is used by residents and businesses alike to bring household good to be crushed and melted to be sent fir recycling and made in to other goods.
Well 2yrs ago, they realised that 50% of the items being "dumped" were actually in very good condition and only bring discarded because we have a "throw-away society" now.
Welcome to THE SHED. A local council initiative to try and save items that are too good to go to landfill /recycle be returned to local people. Think of it as a thrift store/charity shop on an industrial scale.
This is just a small selection of the stuff here and as you can see you could get list in here for hours.
Now I'm sure one day someone will find a hidden work of art or an early Chinese vase, but me, my eye automatically get drawn to shiny things..
Unfortunately just electro plated nickel silver(epns). Now this does have some value and I always find out when they are selling it for. Because this is a recycling centre and every penny is pure profit, these things are very cheap and I could flip it on ebay for a quick return. They wanted £4 by the way or both trays for £6.
Now these are the things I'm interested in...
After digging through hundreds of utensils I found 2 I was interested in.
TOP No 1 - Always ask a price before hand;
Q "How much is that junk cutlery over there?"
A "10p (£0.10)"
The prices in here are never a set price. They just can't, they have such a high turn over of goods.
So I found by getting a price in advance is much cheaper. I guarantee she wouldn't say 10p if I walked up with 2 silver spoons..... Get me??!!??
I'll give it a few weeks then make my way back and have another look through.
So just remembered next time you're passing a charity shop, call in. You never know what youll find.