Monday 17 October 2022
Scrap
Chongjin residents unhappy with order to contribute 100 kilograms of scrap metal
One neighborhood watch unit in the city instructed families to contribute KPW 100,000 in cash if they have no scrap metal, a source told Daily NK
According to the source, the people’s committee of Chongjin had previously held an emergency meeting of neighborhood office heads, with the committee handing families in each neighborhood watch unit an “additional” task to procure scrap metal. The committee called on families to carry out this task by Dec. 10.
Every year, North Korean authorities task families in each neighborhood watch unit with contributing a year’s worth of all sorts of items, including scrap metal. The authorities evaluate residents’ performance of these tasks through quarterly reviews.
Their world is more bizarre than ours. Well - at the moment it is. Do North Koreans lock up their bicycles every time this demand comes along? If the UK government comes up with a similar idea, then HS2 will never be finished.
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"If the UK government comes up with a similar idea, then HS2 will never be finished."
It will be: every wasted penny in the building of this vanity project will be spent no matter what the state of the rest of the rail and roads network. Then they can watch it rust away.
Isn't central planning brilliant!
An extra 100kg. of scrap metal per family seems a great deal. I wonder if the pressure increases to such an extent that families will buy new metal items just to scrap them. If they introduce quotas for recycling in the UK, I'll happily buy a lot more vegan yogurt so I can recycle the washed-out pots. The Alpro strawberry and banana is the best. Five a day is part of your five a day.
Maybe an alternative here, would be for errant feral kids to go round picking up the Macdonalds wrappers, Red Bull tins, Costa cups and fag packets, and have to reach at least a bin-bagfull by nightfall, otherwise they get no tea...
Jannie - every wasted penny plus those they haven't yet admitted to.
Sam - yes, 100kg. of scrap metal per family sounds like a huge quantity. Where is it to be found for those living in apartments?
Scrobs - if errant feral kids were to pick up litter along the A38 verges near here, they would fill a bin-bag within a few minutes.
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