An excellent hard-working and efficient team spent last Saturday sorting out the Snug and cataloguing its contents
There’s now a good amount of space to store projects, with more space opening up every day as members collect and claim abandoned and forgotten treasures
So…ahead of the Spring clean at the end of March (when everything under the arch this side of the Snug will be gone through) please clear any personal projects from the workshops and social area (a very quick scan last night spotted half a dozen ‘works in progress’ with no one progressing them on benches, shelves, in corners and squirrelled away)…Last year the Spring clean was ruthless and members lost some good gear, so mitigate that risk by storing stuff safely in the Snug with a storage request
Projects left out while not being worked on reduce working space for fellow members, encourage collateral clutter (!) and also skew the storage system – we can’t gauge how much storage we need if we don’t have the data!
We have a clear bench policy in many areas, so please don’t be offended if other members move your unattended stuff to the three week bin – it’s not personal, it’s the system we agreed!
Thought I’d revive this old post as it covers storage and the ‘three week bin system’
As we start to get busier a bit of clutter is starting to gather (looking at you, electronics benches!) plus there was an unfortunate dumping of e-waste in our skip this week – a Cambridge Audio amplifier in bits. E-waste needs to be responsibly dealt with
To mitigate both of these we need the three week bin system back to ‘store’ left out projects and give useful waste and abandoned projects a chance for in-house recycling before going into the waste stream
I can put this back in place later on today - we need someone to rotate the labels or whatever and clear it out though, I forget who was doing that pre-covid…
If this is thrown into the skip the company that picks the skip up will sort the waste anyways though and things would get recycled or sent to the right facilities to be disposed of.
Yes, I understand how skips work, but I’m not going to gloss over irresponsible tipping of e-waste, except to note that the three week bins weren’t handy, which made it unclear where to put the amp (taking it home to dispose of would have been best if it wasn’t considered useful for members as it’s not SLMS property and commercial waste handling costs us money)
As an organisation we are committed to environmental and climate responsibility, and need to do much better than this: along with everyone else we’ve forgotten how to do a bunch of things during COVID, and things like this help us