Undermining sustainable products by label and package
Aha, this is an ‘ECO Sponge’, I shall buy this and those tiresome eco-mitherers will stop bothering me!
Here we go again. More ‘sustainable’ products with the ‘Eco’ tag (one that I am growing to despise more and more with each passing day) emblazoned so proudly across its packaging. I feel that I am barely into any kind of stride with this blog but already I can see the danger that I will become a veritable stuck record. Packaging people! Continue reading →
I spent the majority of yesterday afternoon playing with various bits of my rubbish… Now before you start tutting and rolling your eyes in disbelief at my revelry in slightly mucky childish pleasures and Blue Peter-esque constructions, and the barefaced gall I have to call it ‘work’, let me explain why I think this is so important… … household waste (in UK) still totalled a not so healthy 23.7 million tonnes in the period from April 2009 to March 2010… …63.8 million tonnes of household waste accumulated over the last 4 years which has had nowhere to go other than landfill sites, with another 14 million tonnes or so to keep adding to that year on year. Continue reading →
