You're absolutely right. I hae got to ask a question though. What is a standby button? Im sure it's something I use everyday and just call it another name.
Instead of turning the tv off manually, the button on the remote that just turns it to standby and usually emits a light to tell you that it does that. I am a bit peed off I can't turn my cooker clock off as I never set it and have no use for it. Actually my better half is terrible when it comes to turning things off and it really makes me insanely angry. Lights and TVs on when no one is in, her new trick is to use the microwave and just leave the microwave door open after removing the food. Angry isn't the word.
As for recycling plastic, we don't get the option for kirbside plastic recycling but we try and take most of it down to the asda recycling point. I am quite interested in learning the actual facts for recycling certain materials, as I have heard that something like only 5% of plastic is successfully recycled, which if true is a bit... well... erm.. rubbish for want of a better word. The other thing that annoys me about our council is they don't accept veg peelings and such in the green compost bin, whereas lots of other councils do. I was reading the pamphlet for St Helens town councils compost recycling and it puts the south lakeland regime to shame, it takes all forms of compost, brown as well as green, so you can throw your card board in there and your tea bags etc which is great. When I asked why we can't do the same here I was told that we had to either buy a compost bin for our own garden or put it in the landfill bin, we bought the compost bin which is still yet to arrive over 2 months after ordering, what happens to our compostables that go in the landfil bin I asked a woman at the council, she told me it bio degrades in the landfil and doesn't take up any more space of the landfill after it breaks down back into the environment. So why bother putting anything compostable into the green bin, after all it's only going to break down into the environment at land fill isn't it? Way to go at selling recycling to the general public. The other annoying thing is we now only get a landfill collection every fortnight and a recycling collection alternate fortnights, thats fine if we were actually allowed to recycle as we would want to. Most of our food wrappers came from shops which used bio degradable bags, which basically means we could compost it, if our bin ever arrived, or put it in the green compost collection bin, if they let us. We rarely buy newspapers and try to use as much paperless online billing as possible so our actual paper recycling is next to nothing, the milklan takes his empties back, and we rarely buy food in tins and glass jars. If we did we would use the glass and tin recycling point at our childrens nursey. The thing that fills our bins is nappies, until recently we had 2 children in nappies, unfortunately these things take like a millenia to break down so it's very bad, the other choice is washable nappies, which means the washing machine on constantly instead of almost constantly. Now we have found ourselves actively buying food in cans and bottles because it creates more space in our landfill bin. Surely it would make more sense if they just took the compostable wrappers away in the bloody compost bin like any other sane council instead of putting us in a position where we have to create more intensive recycling as opposed to the stuff doing it by just being exposed to the elements themselves. The tagline here is 'lets sort it together'. Well I would if you gave us half a bleeding chance.
Phew that feels better after a nice rant against 'the man'.
I think he is saying that every person here is to balme to some degree. I don't think he is saying we as in American, because American isn't even the most environmentally destructive country. China is by far the worst. And as I'm told by some british members on here, we are also extremely backwards savages when it comes to our environmental ideas. Since some British gentleman said this, I assume it must be true of course, But nothing these brilliant members say can put me off from believeing China may somehow be slightly more careless, even more careless than savage americans when it comes to environmental preservation.
I haven't seen anyone say Americans are savages or backwards. China probably is more careless towards the environment in some regards, but as a post I made previously is able to show that with regards to carbon emissions, Americans produce something like 4 times as much per person than China does. The UK is worse than China in that respect too. But of course that doesn't take into acount the crap they let flow into the waterways so it isn't an accurate statement on the overall picture, just an acurate statement on the given facts. Interestingly in one of the articles I linked to it says that China will do nothing to curb their pollution while America does nothing, and while it is a somewhat poor defence for harming the environment they do have a point. The world views america as self appointed leaders of the free world, I don't really know how Americans view their own nation, but as a British person I think America is certainly the most powerful nation on earth and the US government seems to me like they are quite happy to push that fact, which is absolutely fine as they can back it up, however if America really is leader of the free world it would be fair to assume they should 'lead by example'. Sign up to cutting emmisions, or make your own targets and stick to them, make laws to prevent actions such as the news story in the OP and stick to them, make it impossible to weasle out of which may or may not have been the case, I am curious how many other exemptions have been issued like this? Is it only oil companies that receive an exemption?
