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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 11:28:16 GMT
Lead by example...now where do I start? By offering to pay for Stabby's blacking and hull survey ? You've got the money to travel backwards and forwards on a plane so you can do it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 11:35:48 GMT
If you feel that strongly about it, why do you own a computer? Don't you realise that computer was shipped half-way around the world and then travelled hundreds of miles by truck before you bought it? Or did you think the PC World fairy just magicked it into the shop while you were asleep?
Buying on line avoids hundreds of miles of car mileage each year, making often abortive journeys to the shops.
Owning a computer does not increase carbon miles overall, it reduces them, in my case hugely.
You need to look at the wider picture instead of being A STABBY TWAT.
That's complete cuckoo land thinking, along with a splash of naivety and hypocrisy. You may well think you have massively reduced your carbon footprint, but in the real world you've simply attempted to micromanage it, and failed.
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Post by bodger on Jan 25, 2020 12:09:02 GMT
double twat glove puppet troll
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Post by bodger on Jan 25, 2020 12:11:12 GMT
has it ever occurred to you that using a computer allows you to purchase stuff on line and secondhand?
I can well afford to buy new, but I see no reason to when I can buy a good used car or boat engine, and many other items. Doing so avoids the production of new stuff and reduces waste.
Buying on line avoids hundreds of miles of car mileage each year, making often abortive journeys to the shops.
Owning a computer does not increase carbon miles overall, it reduces them, in my case hugely.
You need to look at the wider picture instead of being A STABBY TWAT.
It must be 'greener' to order food on line too. Having a single van deliver to multiple addresses must be 'greener' than dozens of cars driving to the supermarket. On the flip side, how many carbon miles are wasted buying shit we don't need from the other side of the world? And, how many carbon miles are wasted sending the scrap back around the world to dump? So yes, buying second hand is good for the environment, I just wish things were made to last longer than 1 year. I am pleased to observe that we are finally singing from the same hymn sheet.
I have been diligently putting hard plastic in the bin provided at my local 'recycling centre'. I was there yesterday and the bin had gone - I was requested to put hard plastic in general waste (i.e. landfill). I asked why the council (actually a council sponsored company called Bristol Waste) was no longer recycling hard plastic, and I was told that 'there is no profit in it'. So much for green initiatives.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 12:19:38 GMT
It must be 'greener' to order food on line too. Having a single van deliver to multiple addresses must be 'greener' than dozens of cars driving to the supermarket. On the flip side, how many carbon miles are wasted buying shit we don't need from the other side of the world? And, how many carbon miles are wasted sending the scrap back around the world to dump? So yes, buying second hand is good for the environment, I just wish things were made to last longer than 1 year. I am pleased to observe that we are finally singing from the same hymn sheet.
We always were to a degree but you stormed in without reading my original post properly. Twat!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 12:22:27 GMT
double twat glove puppet troll Well, childish behaviour like yours only serves to undermine your whole argument. You've lost.
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Post by bodger on Jan 25, 2020 13:15:39 GMT
double twat glove puppet troll Well, childish behaviour like yours only serves to undermine your whole argument. You've lost. good. brownie points to the troll.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 25, 2020 13:54:04 GMT
has it ever occurred to you that using a computer allows you to purchase stuff on line and secondhand?
I can well afford to buy new, but I see no reason to when I can buy a good used car or boat engine, and many other items. Doing so avoids the production of new stuff and reduces waste.
Buying on line avoids hundreds of miles of car mileage each year, making often abortive journeys to the shops.
Owning a computer does not increase carbon miles overall, it reduces them, in my case hugely.
You need to look at the wider picture instead of being A STABBY TWAT.
And, how many carbon miles are wasted sending the scrap back around the world to dump? And .... then they send it back because they don't want our rubbish! ha ha ha! " Malaysia sent 4,120 tons of plastic trash back to 13 rich countries, saying it refuses to be the 'rubbish dump of the world' " " "In the last quarter of 2019, 43 containers were returned to France, 42 to the UK, 17 to the US, and 11 to Canada," Yeo Bee Yin, the country's environment minister, tweeted on Monday." Perhaps it was a simple mistake? I mean, Bee Yin sounds a bit like 'Yee Bin'. www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-return-plastic-trash-rich-countries-us-france-canada-uk-2020-1?r=US&IR=T (note: Business Insider, not Daily Mail!)
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 25, 2020 14:00:37 GMT
It must be 'greener' to order food on line too. Having a single van deliver to multiple addresses must be 'greener' than dozens of cars driving to the supermarket. On the flip side, how many carbon miles are wasted buying shit we don't need from the other side of the world? And, how many carbon miles are wasted sending the scrap back around the world to dump? So yes, buying second hand is good for the environment, I just wish things were made to last longer than 1 year. I was there yesterday and the bin had gone 1. Probably just carted away to the local dump and thrown onto the heaving, stinking heap of rubbish. 2. Or... sent to Malaysia in a ship that pours black smoke up to the sky... only to be sent back a month later because they don't want your plastic waste. I bet those ships just sneak down the coast of Africa and throw it overboard and pretend it's the Italians up to their old tricks again. Coast of Somalia would be my choice, teach those scabby pirates a lesson!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 14:05:56 GMT
Not all Somalis are pirates.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 25, 2020 14:13:12 GMT
It must be 'greener' to order food on line too. Having a single van deliver to multiple addresses must be 'greener' than dozens of cars driving to the supermarket. On the flip side, how many carbon miles are wasted buying shit we don't need from the other side of the world? And, how many carbon miles are wasted sending the scrap back around the world to dump? So yes, buying second hand is good for the environment, I just wish things were made to last longer than 1 year. I am pleased to observe that we are finally singing from the same hymn sheet.
I asked why the council (actually a council sponsored company called Bristol Waste) was no longer recycling hard plastic, and I was told that 'there is no profit in it'. So much for green initiatives. So once again rates and local taxes are given to a private company to make a handsome profit. "Bristol Waste is in a unique position of having both a good understanding and working knowledge of the Council" - how cosy. backhanders for councillors who awarded the 10 year contract? mates at the golf course? "Despite the company making profits worth £5,600 per employee, it had refused to make a decent pay offer. A sustained campaign by union activists between August 2018 and January 2019 led to the company’s original offer of 3.5 per cent over two years increase to 6.2 per cent over two years. In an attempt to sweeten its deal, Bristol Waste even purchased tickets for its staff to see Cinderella at the Bristol Hippodrome which only served to strengthen the resolve of the workforce to seek a fair pay increase." unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2019/february/bristol-workers-turn-pantomime-drama-into-pay-victory/
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 25, 2020 14:27:43 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 25, 2020 14:28:08 GMT
"Fast forward to 2019 and we find The Former Socialist Known as Dudd’s waste overseer, Bristol Waste managing director Tony Lawless telling the Nazi Post*, “We are delighted to see Bristol is on track to meet its ambitious RECYCLING RATE OF 50 PER CENT BY 2020.” The comment came after the Reverend’s council managed to announce in January a measly ONE PER CENT increase in recycling rates since 2015 to 46%. Nothing like enough of an increase to reach 50 per cent, never mind 55 per cent, by 2020 as promised in their manifesto." thebristolian.net/2019/03/03/marvins-marvelous-manifesto/(* Bristol Post?)
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 25, 2020 14:39:22 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 25, 2020 15:02:30 GMT
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