There is a saying in the north of England "Where there's muck there's brass", meaning where there are dirty jobs to be done there is money to be made.
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Well there's nothing more mucky than dog poo, but even in that unlikely
object there's apparently money to be made, well in Taiwan at least.
They have a reward system which hands out lottery tickets for bags of dog waste scooped from the streets of New Taipei City. The prizes for this social activity range from the top prize of a gold ingot worth $2,200 (£1,400), down through smaller gold ingots worth hundreds of dollars, to small household appliances.
This cunning scheme has been credited with halving the amount of dog mess on the city streets, but despite the scheme being extended, it can't go on forever, with many saying that the city simply cannot afford to keep exchanging dog poo for gold.
However I seem to recall that in the Terry Prachett 'Disc World' series of fantasy books, the reclamation czar of Ankh-Morpork Harry King (aka as 'Piss Harry' behind his back), the man sometimes called the 'King of the Golden River', had a soft spot for what he called 'White Gold' i.e. dried dog waste, because leather tanners would pay extra for it ...... maybe the councillors of New Taipei City are missing a source of revenue here?
However I seem to recall that in the Terry Prachett 'Disc World' series of fantasy books, the reclamation czar of Ankh-Morpork Harry King (aka as 'Piss Harry' behind his back), the man sometimes called the 'King of the Golden River', had a soft spot for what he called 'White Gold' i.e. dried dog waste, because leather tanners would pay extra for it ...... maybe the councillors of New Taipei City are missing a source of revenue here?
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