Should we be more worried about plastic than global warming?

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Re: Should we be more worried about plastic than global warming?

#281 Post by OFSO » Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:45 pm

The Panasonic guys who installed my a/c used flexible electricity ducting for the water outlet pipe. (This is Spain, after all). Ten years of Spanish sun has had its effect and the plastic ducting has biodegraded into powder. Really powder.

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#282 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:13 am

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#283 Post by Slasher » Sat Sep 14, 2019 7:49 am

I wouldn't totally give up on plastic just yet.



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Re: Should we be more worried about plastic than global warming?

#284 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Mon Oct 07, 2019 11:45 am

Well this is good news https://news.sky.com/story/unilever-con ... s-11829909 :)

As an aside there are a lot of products here that are sold in rigid plastic bottles eg washing up liquid and general house cleaner, which can be refilled with soft plastic pouches made from recycled plastic. However, the refills are more expensive most of the time due to the bottles constantly being on special offer. Now I go for the ecological refill, but I suspect that I am in the minority. :(
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#285 Post by Slasher » Mon Oct 07, 2019 11:50 am

Well this is good news

So’s this! :D

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#286 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:44 pm

Yet another example of how innovation is slowly replacing single use plastic with viable ecological alternatives. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -wood.html Long term projects which hopefully bear fruit. :)
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#287 Post by Slasher » Mon Oct 14, 2019 3:33 am

Nicked from Sise in the Children Climate thread. This’ll make TS as livid me!

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#288 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:12 am

:-bd for the above post.

Now, I hope that this idea catches on; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... atoes.html

It would be nice to think that when I buy cans of fruit juice or beer loose that I am being eco friendly. However I know that they arrive at the shops as six packs wrapped in un- recyclable plastic. ~X( Even small bottles of beer which are sitting on a cardboard tray are wrapped in plastic, why cant they be packed into a box? Or why not put them into reusable plastic crates which they use for the large bottles? :-\
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#289 Post by Capetonian » Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:32 am

I hope so too, but I fear it won't make much of an impact. All the stuff is shrink wrapped in plastic for convenience in packaging and handling, and for some goods, to prevent tampering and pilfering.

What would be a step forward is to use plastic or fibre webbing to hold bottles and tins together. It is still plastic, but significantly smaller amounts and disposal would be easy.

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#290 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Nov 01, 2019 6:44 am

Good to see Tesco making an effort to reduce plastic; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tores.html

Maybe package designers will be forced by large companies like Tesco to redesign/design packaging to minimise the amount of plastic used. However I suspect that manufacturers may be resistent to such changes as it surely would be costly to replace/modify packaging machines. Hopefully things will slowly change for the better. :)
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#291 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:16 am

Morrisons have shot themselves in the foot with this latest product idea; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ASTIC.html 8-}
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#292 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Tue Nov 19, 2019 6:36 am

Well this is an imaginative way to use up plastic waste, and looks fun too; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... waste.html :-bd
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#293 Post by BenThere » Tue Nov 19, 2019 4:43 pm

Probably the best next step would be to address the 2nd and 3rd world countries that indiscriminately toss their plastic detritus into the sea, India, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, and all of Africa, for example, and establish recycling and more environmental consciousness there.

Communism and Socialism also tend to leave a horrendous ecological legacy. Stamping those cancers out for good would be a gigantic advance, not only for ecology but for lifting people out of poverty to the point where they can afford to maintain their environments. The Capitalist countries are at the forefront of environmental preservation.

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#294 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:40 am

I know many don't like links from the Groiniad, but this is a well written and interesting article; https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... y-dwellers

Plastic is everywhere even if you can't see it which is worrying.
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#295 Post by Slasher » Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:06 am

Mrs Ex-Ascot wrote:
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TS that sounds like an unknown Homer classic that is just far too painful for blokes to read! :)) ;)))

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#296 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Thu Jan 09, 2020 3:39 pm

An interesting article from Sky News highlighting the problems with reducing single use plastic; https://news.sky.com/story/kneejerk-mov ... t-11904417
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Re: Should we be more worried about plastic than global warming?

#297 Post by probes » Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:20 pm

120 points to Slash for 'nicking from Sise' - that's exactly what I've been thinking. It's devastating for a teenager to be treated like a messiah, especially as the message is emotional, but ... well, youknow.

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#298 Post by Slasher » Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:07 am

I’m sure as a late teenager you were devastatingly treated as a pure goddess Probes hon! ^:)^

Yes but I only nick stuff that I know is legally nickable and notify the nickee later it was nicked. Not to be confused with knickers which I’d nick without saying boo while nicking off with said knickery.

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Re: Should we be more worried about plastic than global warming?

#299 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sun Jan 19, 2020 6:53 am

It seems to be the younger generation who keep on lecturing us about Global Warming and Climate Change Emergency, while at the same time being the driving force behind ecologically unfriendly products such as eggs for poaching in plastic bags, garlic transported to China to be peeled and sent back to Europe to be packaged into plastic pots, and now ready peeled potatoes in a plastic bag; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... uches.html X(

And to make it worse Marks and Sparks claim that they aim to be plastic free by 2025! :-o
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Re: Should we be more worried about plastic than global warming?

#300 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:45 am

This is a well written article by Jeremy Paxman; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... -rage.html

Yet another corporation putting the blame on to the consumer instead of themselves. And also claiming that they are doing really well at recycling. [-(
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