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Melissa Kite: My journey to despair with Lambeth's bin men

The message of the leaflet is that, like sex, recycling is very much an activity anyone can do

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

Everything is a journey now, especially if it involves failure. The X Factor rejects, people having disasters as they build their own homes on Grand Designs, they’re all on a journey. ‘It’s been an incredible journey,’ they say, watery-eyed as they reflect on what is, in truth, a shameful mess of their own making.

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