How environmentally friendly are you?

[dysfunction]

You can buy milk from anywhere in glass bottles. 100% recycleable, glass can be melted down and reformed with no loss in quality, again and again and again.

Ive not seen milk in ASDA or Sainsburys in glass bottles....maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

 

[Tom]

Thats because supermarkets lower the price by using the cheapest packaging and the largest bulk buying power they can. If you go to your local corner shop, or even your milkman you'll get proper bottles.

Yes I know supermarkets are cheaper, but there is a hidden cost to all of these things....

 

[Bodhi]

1) I drive a powerful car very quickly, normally seeing around 28 to the gallon maybe down to 23 if I'm having fun. I go on lots of nice long pointless drives, and would honestly consider taking the cat off the exhaust if I didn't need it for its MOT every year.

2) Separate out my garbage? Ya fucking what? Tell you what I have a much better idea, I'll stick all my rubbish out in a big bag, and you can give it to some chav kid to sort out for minimum wage.

3) If I stop in a lay-by for some dinner/spliffage i will generally empty a lot of the rubbish in my car into the lay-by. The way I see it, I'm just keeping a litter picker in a job.

4) I leave lots of electric gadgets on needlessly for days on end (PS2's PC's etc). My hi-fi is always left on, because it sounds better.

5) I'm iffy about recycled toilet paper. Bog roll always struck me as the kinda thing that, once used, should be flushed down the toilet rather than recycled. Sounds like green awareness taken a little too far...

So not very as I'm sure you'll gather. But I do make up for it by feeding cannabis sprinkled Pringles to the seagulls whenever I'm in Llandudno. I was just gutted me mates wouldn't let me use Alka Seltzer......

 

[dysfunction]

Thats because supermarkets lower the price by using the cheapest packaging and the largest bulk buying power they can. If you go to your local corner shop, or even your milkman you'll get proper bottles.

Yes I know supermarkets are cheaper, but there is a hidden cost to all of these things....

Thats my point right there. Supermarkets should package these things responsibly at the same price as would be for using their current packaging.

I'm not wasting petrol and time going to 100 different shops to buy eco friendly products that are more expensive.

You've got to be mad.

 

[Paradroid]

I haven't seen glass bottled milk in years! I don't know if, living in the Glasgow area, we're subjected to a monopoly on milk containers - but plastic & cardboard are the only ones I can buy(?).

I don't understand the problem with using plastic? As long as it's recycled - what's wrong with it?

As far as wood goes, yeah use sustainable trees etc, but here's an interesting article regarding our rain forests.

I live in a rented flat so nothing is eco friendly (poor everything). Also, we have no local recycling facilities, except maybe glass (but there's no bottle-banks anywhere near me).

I don't drive, I did used to cycle a lot (when I lived in the sticks) - but public transport is my means of getting around.

I don't know about energy saving light bulbs (and fluorescent), but I thought that with ordinary bulbs, constantly switching them on/off uses more energy than leaving the damn things on (overcoming inertia).

If it's cold, I wear a jumper. If it's really cold, I wear a jumper and a fleece.




Oh, and Bodhi, I don't know if your reply is supposed to be sardonic - but it's laughable when you refer to paying some "chav" minimum wage to pick up your trash, when your whole (perceived) attitude is chav-dom excemplified!

LoL

:kissit:

 

[Bodhi]

Er what? I'm a chav because I drive a fast car?

You're a chav. You breathe in and out. 0wned.


Oh and mongol features, you can get glass bottles from your milkman. You don't even have to leave your home to get it he'll even deliver it to your door! Just think, you won't have to get public transport with the other paups just to get milk anymore! Go you!

 

[old.user4556]

Is that Tiger Woods in your avatar bodhi?

What kind of car are we talking about here btw, like that pic paradroid, gonna forward that onto a few people I know who are into that kind of thing.

G

 

[Bodhi]

It is. If you look at my sig, you'll see that I am he.

I drive a Golf GTi 16v which is in the same condition it left the factory. I just occasionally get bored and blat around a few back roads for a while. What's so chavesque about that?

 

[old.user4556]

Nah it's not Chav at all bodders.

 

[Athan]

I hate to put a dampener on all the recyclers, but there's evidence that most of it isn't helping the environment at all. OK, so I've not yet managed to do some independent research and what I know came off Penn & Teller's Bullshit!. Basically, apart from recycling aluminium cans, recycling doesn't help at all. It costs more, both monetarily and environmentally, to do it than you save by doing it. So why do companies do it ? Subsidies, plain and simple.

I have no reason to disbelieve the Bullshit! guys, but do realise this is flimsy evidence. I might be arsed to go do some independent research now, but on the other hand has anyone got figures showing all the recycling definitely DOES help?

-Ath, who prefers the flat dark and thus saves electricity by hardly ever having the lights on

 

[Paradroid]

Er what? I'm a chav because I drive a fast car?

You're a chav. You breathe in and out. 0wned.


Oh and mongol features, you can get glass bottles from your milkman. You don't even have to leave your home to get it he'll even deliver it to your door! Just think, you won't have to get public transport with the other paups just to get milk anymore! Go you!

I didn't say just driving fast makes you a chav (I've know loads of peeps over the years who were speed nuts - country lanes at night, paying to horse it round F1 race tracks etc)....emptying your crap in a lay-by ... I just think that your "couldn't give an environmental toss" attitude is chav. But chavs come in all shapes'n'sizes, so it kind of boils down to attitude.

Mongol features? Personal insults? Perhaps at this point you'd like to remove all doubt and physically threaten me too, on top of the verbal?

(*sigh*)


Funny site.

Another with good links.

 

[old.user4556]

uh oh :touch:

 

[moomin]

my council has a specil bin van that collects recyclables every 2 weeks

it rawks

 

[Paradroid]

On a plus side my current workplace is very enviro-friendly. We've got green everything - lights, water, waste seperation & recycling. About 15 years ago I worked in the refigeration industry, and it was common-place for the engineers to use compressed CFCs as air-dusters (!) to blow away dust etc when working on sites! Conversely, about 12 years ago, I worked with Compaq, and they recycled all their wasted components - which apparently are very dodgy for landfill sites (chemicals galore).

The worst thing on the planet is watching a bus or lorry spew black fumes as it trundles down the road, I mean ffs get it off the road!

 

[old.Tohtori]

The people of tomorrow can sort out the mess we leave.

Don't do squat for the enviroment, unless i accdently buy/use/do stuff.

It's not like theplanet is going oxygen free in my lifetime so...why should i

 

[babs]

The offices I work at are super eco friendly etc too. Geothermal heating, rainwater for the low-flush bogs etc.

 

[Tom]

Those geo-thermal heating systems are very good. If you have a large enough garden (say 1/4 acre or so) you can install them in your home, the lifetime is well over 50 years apparently.

 

[Will]

The people of tomorrow can sort out the mess we leave.

Don't do squat for the enviroment, unless i accdently buy/use/do stuff.

It's not like theplanet is going oxygen free in my lifetime so...why should i

 

[tRoG]

I recycle all my beer bottles. That's a whole load of glass

 

[Bodhi]

I didn't say just driving fast makes you a chav (I've know loads of peeps over the years who were speed nuts - country lanes at night, paying to horse it round F1 race tracks etc)....emptying your crap in a lay-by ... I just think that your "couldn't give an environmental toss" attitude is chav. But chavs come in all shapes'n'sizes, so it kind of boils down to attitude.

Mongol features? Personal insults? Perhaps at this point you'd like to remove all doubt and physically threaten me too, on top of the verbal?

(*sigh*)


Funny site.

Another with good links.

I could physically threaten you. Would be a bit pointless over the internet though. If we ever meet I will put your testicles in a mincer. How's that?

Anyway, the couldn't give an environmental toss attitude comes from being bombarded by the media about environmental awareness. Frankly I think it's all a big bag of toss. I mean they say "Greenhous warming polar ice caps melting we're all gonna die aieeeeee", but they never mention that planet Earth isn't supposed to have polar ice caps in the first place. Temperatures are going up cos we're coming out of a mini-ice age. Simple innit.

 

[Paradroid]

I could physically threaten you. Would be a bit pointless over the internet though. If we ever meet I will put your testicles in a mincer. How's that?

Anyway, the couldn't give an environmental toss attitude comes from being bombarded by the media about environmental awareness. Frankly I think it's all a big bag of toss. I mean they say "Greenhous warming polar ice caps melting we're all gonna die aieeeeee", but they never mention that planet Earth isn't supposed to have polar ice caps in the first place. Temperatures are going up cos we're coming out of a mini-ice age. Simple innit.

It's not just about: will we or won't we start an ice-age. It's about local pollution too. I used to live just on the outskirts of the Clyde Valley (Foxbar in Paisley - ya bass ), and a short walk took me right out the valley so I could look down at a whole section of Clyde Valley (including Glasgow Airport) - and it's a shock to see the feking pollution that (approx) a million people are living in. You can easily see the smog level right across the city. We're breathing this shit.

Leaving rubbish at your arse just gives future generations a problem. It's a very childish attitude - like an untrained puppy shitting where it wants, its the owner who has to clean it up. A couple of earlier points suggested we should rely on the government to do everything - but that's just asking for a nanny state. Do you want to be forced to do everything? I like freedom of will, but it comes with responsibility doesn't it?

Oh, and coincidently, I used to work for a meatpacking company 14 years ago (Scotbeef in East Kilbride - as a maintenance engineer). I haven't had my balls in a mincer, but just about everything else! (50+ butchers can be quite, erm, interesting to work with). So, that would be just fine if you think that's appropriate. (14 years ago your balls hadn't even dropped! LoL)

 

[throdgrain]

Agreed. I fucking hate walking along looking at rubbish in the streets, its disgusting, makes the neighbourhood look shit and people take less pride in it.
Bodhi prolly doesnt have to worry about that mind, if I remember rightly he has a mile or so drive up to his front door, surrounded by trees and deer and such like

 

[Paradroid]

Agreed. I fucking hate walking along looking at rubbish in the streets, its disgusting, makes the neighbourhood look shit and people take less pride in it.
Bodhi prolly doesnt have to worry about that mind, if I remember rightly he has a mile or so drive up to his front door, surrounded by trees and deer and such like

heh

And I don't agree with the "keeping litter pickers in a job", my fekin council tax is just silly!

 

[mr.Blacky]

Not environmentally friendly at all. Noone on here is really caus power to use your pc has to come from somewhere. And noone "needs" to use their pc to post on a forum.

 

[Paradroid]

Not environmentally friendly at all. Noone on here is really caus power to use your pc has to come from somewhere. And noone "needs" to use their pc to post on a forum.

What! You power your PC from the mains supply!?! I've got my bike hooked-up to a dynamo generator and I had to cycle furiously for 15 minutes just to post this!

You just don't even try! You make baby jebus cry!