December 08, 2004
Poo
Every second Tuesday evening a small anonymous white van glides through the darkened narrow streets of Amsterdam, stopping briefly at narrow leaning houses where well-tied white plastic bags are hastily handed over to be deposited in the back of the van, before it hurries on its way over the cobblestones and grachten. Its not a special van in any way, unmarked and no different to the van's thousands of small-businesses use every day. The driver sits in the front and directly behind him sit all his goods with no partition between them. On a cold winter's evening I imagine he has the heating turned up nice and high also. Or maybe not.
Because every second Tuesday evening this small white van and a remarkably (REMARKABLY) cheerful driver drop by to pick up all of Jacob's USED nappies. These are then whisked away while two green bags of new recycled disposables are left behind in their place.
You DO NOT want to have an accident with this van.
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