Our local household recycling depot has recently set up a skip for "hard plastic" which seems to cover almost anything that's not bottles or food containers. That would be my very last resort!

Just thought of another box - recorded cassettes that came to me from Alan Bell (Fylde Folk Festival) for audition - all from prospective performers (some of whom did get booked). I suspect this is mainly the reject pile (no names, no pack drill) and extremely variable in quality and style - I wonder if some of these people had actually been to a folk festival. Some were obviously made at home, some were copies of professionally made recordings, one had been recorded from one machine to another via the first machine's speakers - unfortunately the microphone of the second machine also picked up the noise of frying bacon, clinking cutlery etc, as the artist went about making his tea! Although a talented artist, he didn't get a booking.

I'll see if there is any interest at the folk club - I took a similar box of CDs there a few weeks ago which I suspect will constitute raffle (booby?) prizes for a few months.

Ross