The plastic whale - seen it? It's awful. Intestines full of plastic preventing it from feeding. So it died. And we did that. Facebook is full of horror stories and advice. I for one always carry a Paperchase shopping bag with me - so I can refuse the 5p plastic bag when I shop. And I know a lot of people do similar. And we're advised to stop buying single use plastics - bottled water being one and straws another. So we're all pottering around to the gym etc with our water flasks and refusing straws with our cocktails (anyone who knows me well will know I do neither of those things - gym or cocktails). And then came the Facebook post about the dangers that lurk in your environmentally friendly water flask. Yep. You heard it here second. Apparently - they harbour germs. Lots of them. So you might as well lick the toilet bowl apparently. The germs mainly gather around the spout bit. Where you drink from. Because apparently we're all dirty buggers and don't clean them out properly. So the advice given on this post? This...(oh the irony) Drink from a single use bottle with a straw.
Sod the bloody germs. I am going to do my part to save those darned whales! Rant two - packaging Yesterday I popped into Holland and Barrett to buy some Vit D. So apart from the hefty price (Boots is far cheaper), the packaging was ridiculous. The plastic bottle was huge - not even one-fifth full. Why not reduce the size? Or package in something more env. friendly? Here's an idea - remember the old sweet shops - where you could buy a quarter of cop-cops in a paper bag?... "I'll have a quarter of Vit D and half a pound of Vit C with zinc please..." And finally - Trafford Council Recently our council have changed the rules about our full-size green wheelie bins. Instead of a weekly collection of food and garden waste they have decided they won't take your garden waste anymore - unless you pay an annual fee of £40 (approx. - can't remember the exact amount!). So...if you don't pay - they come weekly and empty that tiny bit of food waste that is at the bottom of the the bin. And if you do pay - you get a sticker. Which you have to write your address on and stick on the lid of your huge green wheelie bin - which, in our case, sits in the entry (ginnel, snicket, vennel, wynd, twitten) behind the house along with all the neighbour's. So - we now have a sticker. Highly visible to any neighbour who chose not to pay and who could well decide to dump their garden waste into our bin. And woe betide anyone who puts garden waste in the bin and who hasn't paid. The bin won't be emptied...so all that food waste will simply stay there and attract flies. The council advice for those who have garden waste but don't want to pay to have it removed? Take it to the local tip. What I hadn't considered (and not entirely sure the council did either) is those on low incomes (etc.) who can't afford the £40 and who don't drive. What do they do? In a recent case - one such person was advised by a council rep to buy one of their compost bins for her grass cuttings. Two things here - grass cuttings don't compost well on their own...and 'buy' a compost bin? Like with money? That she doesn't have? Jesus. I give up. Conclusion The world has indeed gone mad.
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