GW / Gove Plant Pot Crusade

We've never bought new stuff, only period art deco furniture

Never bought a boiler, we only burn free pallets, logs, sticks, etc.

 

I'm sure one day it will dawn on this bunch that keep coming up with this kind of thing that the real problem is too many consumers.
Until they do these ideas will surface from time to time, but when you stop doing one thing something else becomes a problem, I'm sure at some point wind farms will become an evil that needs to be disposed of, once the world is full of them.

As to tax, well give governments the chance to raise tax money, and they will.
They just love this "green thing".

 

7.6 Billion people on earth right now. Increasing by 150,000 a day.

Banning the use of plant pots aint gonna make any difference. Its not a start,its a gimmick like most public relation gimmicks the public swallow enmasse.

Eg 10p plastic bags reducing plastic bag usage but still being used to pack your supermarket stuff into thats full of excessive packaging,needless plastics,and some plastics that still cant be recycled etc.

My local coffee chain still uses cups that cant be recycled and tens of millions of coffee pods are sent to land fill every year still.

 

Have to agree with you my friend. With due respects, a hell of a lot of folk also pop their clogs each day.
I don't know. Sometimes the workings of life can seem to be a dream. There is all this higher and super education etc. Wow! man can even go to the moon. However back here, on earth. Great minds are always at work, thinking up this and that, discovering new medicines and such like. Fantastic. So some time in the past, someone came up with the idea of a new thing, that would last for years and years, never wearing out.

So lets try and imagine the boardroom or whatever at the time.

" So my dear friend. Yes. That is a wonderful idea, and invention. Non destructable, lasts for ever!!!!!!!!!!. Tell me please. Once you have made this, er! plastic. Pray what next? If it has the everlasting qualities that you suggest. Then once made, surely that's the end to it.

More than likely some reply came forth. Make hay why the sun shines.
This sadly appears to be the punchline behind so many of todays problems. Inthe case of plastic, it has all gone t/boobs - up. Such casualness isn't good enough. I was once being treated by my then GP for duodenal ulcers. Medication was, Taggermet. The tablets ponged like methane and oops! burping or breakind wind you hoped nobody struck a match. Reading up on this medication, it stated that prolonged use of the drug could cause stomach cancer. Mentioning this to the GP. He simply said. Let's deal with the ulcers first and then we can sort out any side affects.

 

I go in the supermarket, you have to buy a carrier bag if you want one.
I buy meat and fish, both are on a polystyrene tray covered in cling film, at the till the checkout lady put them in a plastic bags., Why???
I get home and immediately throw the plastic bags away, they are thin and not of any use to man or beast.

At least the carriers are reusable.

 

You've nearly got it there!
Ok, I know that Belgium is slightly different. I buy as much veg as I can "loose", rather than pre-bagged. The bags are knotted before going to the till, in such a a way that I can unknot them when I get home. Veg removed, and the bags are folded, and put in my jeans pocket bag-holder. (I make patchwork cushions out of worn-out jeans, and the back pockets are kept as bag-holders). They are strong enough to be used once more, as a poop-bag. I can't understand people buying poop-bags!!

 

I'll remember that,.......when I get a dog.

 

Always used empty bread bags as poop bags, we have our shopping delivered bagless with tesco but all the frozen stuff comes in bags

 

Now you are talking. YES they were the good old days.