Burying Tin Cans

[bainbrig]

Back in the 50s, at scout camp, litter disposal of the many baked-bean cans consisted of bashing them flat with an axe, then burying them in a pit we had dug.

I hadn't really thought of this till recently when it occurred to me to wonder why we didn't put them all in a sack and take them home with us.

Would hundreds of flattened cans do any harm buried in a field in Suffolk?

BB

[gness]

I don't know, BB...but I do know that you will have annoyed lots of detectorists....... ;-)

[bainbrig]

Good point - they'd think they'd found a real horde!

[Buenchico]

Gness beat me to it! (The TV series 'Detectorists' was mainly filmed in Suffolk, so it no doubt encouraged plenty of people around here to try their hand at the hobby).

50 years seems just about long enough for those cans to decompose:
https://www.down2earthmaterials.ie/2013/02/14/decompose/

[bookbinder]

I don't think that there is any need to worry about flattened cans under a field in Suffolk. They will probably have rusted away by now. The reason why your scout leaders didn't have the cans put in sacks and taken home, is because it would have entailed a fair amount of work. Flattening and burying was the easier option. When I was in the Army, in the 60s, that was standard practice at the end of an exercise/manoeuvres in rural areas.

[Spicerack]

Bet you left your poop there as well.

[bainbrig]

Spicerack. Just when we were started to get on so well... Defecate I might (well, do, actually); use the word 'poo' or 'poop'? Never. You can stand on me for that one.

[retrocop]

Special ops ,sneaky beakies and snipers take it home in a plastic bag!!

[Spicerack]

Back to base, Retro. Or do they save it up for leave?

[retrocop]

Back to base spicey.
I suppose at debrief they can demonstrate to the boss what sort of mission they were on. :-)

[retrocop]

Spicey
Old grumble
“ The poop rolls down hill so why are we always operating in the valley?”

[Buenchico]

>>> "bashing them flat with an axe, then burying them in a pit we had dug".

Are you sure that you're not simply getting mixed up with the way that the scout leaders dealt with troublesome scouts, Bainbrig?

;-)

[aelmpvw]

//Bet you left your poop there as well.//
wasn't that deposited in the empty baked beans cans?

[bainbrig]

I object to the insinuation that I could ever have been a ‘troublesome scout’.

My reasons for leaving the 1st Romford were entirely different, and never proved.

Rumours, eh.