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After all the articles on the news and in the papers etc it really is quite apparent that retail outlets have done nothing to minimise product packaging judging on the amount I had to cut up this Christmas so I could get it in the bin.
What do you think about it?
@tinks wrote:
After all the articles on the news and in the papers etc it really is quite apparent that retail outlets have done nothing to minimise product packaging judging on the amount I had to cut up this Christmas so I could get it in the bin.
What do you think about it?
Maybe that’s why the companies are all in jeopardy.. They’re putting too much money into the packaging, when they don’t need to.
I get p i ss ed off with the toys that you get that have little bits of wires,.. (needless wires) which hold the product into place!
You could have just gone out and got a bigger bin. It would have saved you the trouble of standing there cutting up the unwanted packaging, and then coming here to type and moan about it.. :lol:Yes tinks I agree with you. The amount of packaging on products drives me mad. The amount of packaging on products that isn,t recyclable also drives me mad.
Why can,t my local council recycle polystyrene or bubble wrap? I have to chuck it out with the normal rubbish and it ends up on a landfill. :evil:
@bat wrote:
Yes tinks I agree with you. The amount of packaging on products drives me mad. The amount of packaging on products that isn,t recyclable also drives me mad.
Why can,t my local council recycle polystyrene or bubble wrap? I have to chuck it out with the normal rubbish and it ends up on a landfill. :evil:
:evil: dont talk to me about polystyrene
](*,)
@woohoo wrote:
@tinks wrote:
After all the articles on the news and in the papers etc it really is quite apparent that retail outlets have done nothing to minimise product packaging judging on the amount I had to cut up this Christmas so I could get it in the bin.
What do you think about it?
Maybe that’s why the companies are all in jeopardy.. They’re putting too much money into the packaging, when they don’t need to.
I get p i ss ed off with the toys that you get that have little bits of wires,.. (needless wires) which hold the product into place!
You could have just gone out and got a bigger bin. It would have saved you the trouble of standing there cutting up the unwanted packaging, and then coming here to type and moan about it.. :lol:wasn’t so much a moan…………more that I was shocked at the amount
* mails council for the bigger bin *
:lol:
We are seeing a big reduction in the amount of packaging used as people buy less stuff.
Woolworth’s have led the way in this, since they no longer use any packaging at all.Anyway, reports say that a lot of the waste collected for recycling is dumped in landfill now as there’s no economic use for it. Now that we have real economic problems that could match the great depression of the 1930’s we haven’t really got time to be sidetracked by packaging problems. I throw more recyclable stuff in the normal bin than I used to. I used to be a very good recycler, now I’m just quite good!
Some goods are over-packaged, I agree, but the alternative is that more things get broken before you buy them.
We need to learn to love landfill again. There are plenty of sites around Britain where landfill could be used to the good, like disused quarries. If we’re really serious about recycling, why don’t we go back to returnable bottles with a deposit? Melting broken glass down to make new bottles probably takes almost as much energy as making new glass from sand.
If you want to recycle bubble-wrap, do you know anyone who sells stuff on eBay? They would jump at it.
I really adore the environmentally friendly recycling tree huggers.
Around a year ago the London Borough of Richmond – whose mission statement is (wait for it) “To be the greenest Borough in the country” brought in a so-called recycling scheme.
They purchased hundreds of thousands of big blue plastic bags for paper – quite forgetting that once emptied they blew all over the place and festooned trees etc.
Glass and plastics etc had to go into a black plastic box.
This meant that instead of just one lorry per week, we now have THREE lorries per week to collect all this separated recyclable rubbish.
They then discovered that the rubbish had to be emptied into a common tip (in Brentford) and got all mixed up together …… before being sent off for landfill.
To counter this, they’ve just spent another £1 million + to equip themselves with a fleet of lorries that can keep the rubbish separated ….. just in time to discover that China etc no longer wants the recyclable rubbish …………
……. and so off to the landfill site it goes again.
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