If the government or some rich benefactor were to open a Museum of Ephemera, prefererably in some town that needs levelling up, it could receive hoards from mad collectors, provide employment for hoarders who feel the need to collect and catalog this stuff, and provide a psychological backstop for people who get into collecting crisp packets etc. — you don’t have to do this, someone else is doing it already…
(picture above from Jarvis Cocker’s guest editorship of the Observer a couple of weeks ago)