Re: The green house effect - one of Thatcher's lies?


"Jim Webster" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I find myself constantly shocked by the waste that you see as you wander
about


A lot of the problem is an inability to re-cycle. Most new items actually
use less material than the old technology.
Look at a 28" CRT television and consider its LCD replacement. So properly
recycled when you hand in your old 30lb tv and colect your 10lb replacement
you should be putting 20lb of raw material back into the system. There is
the energy in the product, but that should also be part of the plan for
renewables.

The biggest waste in my life is packaging, Most items I buy have a high
quality cardboard container made to measure for the item and
inside a expanded foam holder, also not usable for anything else.. A long
time ago when I worked for the MoD such items would have come in a pine box
with a foam rubber inner container, and was returned for reuse.

The food wrapers are over-kill with high quality cardboard and inserts,
often the packaging exceeds the weight of the contents, allowing for the
overall box the collection of individual packages come in, which means over
half the transport costs is for the packaging.

There is a lot of things we can do to reduce waste which will reduce our
co2 footprint, I am not convinced that the global warming issue is proved
but reducing waste with its associated consumption of raw materials and
polution is justified in its own right and it will significantly reduce CO2
production, which cannot hurt.

If you dislike waste, see how many perfectly good TVs and FM radios make
their way to the dump over the next few years as the
services are shut down in favour of digital !!



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