Salford, 29th April 2020
They’re picking up your plastic
your glass, and paper , man
they’re taking it to the depot
in their big new shiny van
They’re re-using all those used things
you would normally throw away
no time to be sticking them in the ground
they’ve found another way
The rubbish is carefully sorted
from the differently bright coloured bins
so there’s piles of different types of rubbish
from plastics and cans, to steel tins
So they’re mulching up yesterdays headlines
for books in the libraries to learn
and they’re sending your food waste for compost
instead of just letting it burn
But its not just the plants that are thriving
some food waste comes back another way
it’ll return in the van, changed by a plan
to collect more things another day
And as the people are in libraries reading
the kids are growing gardens in school
and what do they think of your food waste
when it’s feeding the plants ? they say – Cool!
