Helping Save Rainforests via Consumerism

Palm Oil - It has disappered from my digestive biscuits.

That is good, but I think we could do better why not replace it with sustainable palm oil such as a scheme backed by the RSPO.

The WWF make it easy for compnies to choose a sustainable palm oil supplier with constantly updated lists.



So there is no excuse really.

In the shops look for the RSPO label on the back of products.

If we stop palm oil production in rainforested contries it wil not be long before they start doing somthing else, may selling hard wood for example!!!

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The Ignorance of Greenpeace - Nuclear Fusion

I once had an album by Orbital (funky electronic music around 1995) and inside the front cover there was an “advert” by green peace they rabbited on about the government not spending enough on renewable energy, and instead said that they were “wasting” millions on nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion is the answer to all our prayers, it is worth spending an infinite amount of money on, and now perhaps 15 years after they printed that advert fusion is showing real progress, as I say, ill informed activists.

They still as ignorant now as they ahave ever been.

The Register: Article on Greenpeaces Ignorance with regards to nuclear Energy

Greenpeace: View on the ITER - This is outstandingly bad, probably written by a teenager.

How can we nail down the damaging misinformation the media and NGOs splash about?

The True Cost of MRFs

I think mid Devon DC where I live are a bit lazy when it comes to recycling. They only take the stuff that is easy to recycle namely the metals and glass and leave everything else. They really should invest in a MRF (14/12/09: My views have since changed on this), to help sort their waste. I wonder how long a MRF take to pay for its self? I will Find OUT XXX.

(From: WRAP recovering value from MRFs)

Graph: Big is better. There is little said about detailed costs, but a MRF in mole valley cost £3million, and has a processing charge of £6 -20 a tones, this is on top of any money back from sale of materials. So the answer is they DON’T pay for themselves, the tax payer does.

Recycling is a fairly space hungry activity we live in a small (by UK standards) terrace house. We don’t have space to keep lots of different bins for different bins for sorting, and overriding all this is time. I am working 8 hours plus 4 hours commuting 1 hour eating 1hour with family, and a man needs to sleep.

People can't be bothered to reycle.

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Waste Regulations are Working

I personally have noticed that Waste policies in the UK are making a change to the
way I work, a few weeks back I rung up for a price on a skip to take some concrete away price was £125, and then I thought I’d find a price on a mobile crusher for the day, again £125. So being I I was to gain five or more tones of useful aggregate, I went for the crusher. Crusher was towed 30 miles from the site, it weighs five tones. Good? No. Took me pretty much ½ a day to load it. So minus £60.

But I gained £100 of good quality (for the intended purpose) aggregate. So in economic terms I finished up £40 on top. Not bad for a small amount, a larger amount would have worked out even more cost effective.

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The First Environmental Legislation

Environmental Legislation: 1237 was when the first environmental legislation was first put in the effect, and since then countless act, amendments to acts and EU directivities have overlain these to produce a right old mish mash of rules and regulations. To further complicate this common law can be applied to any case / breach deemed necessary.

This legislation however, convoluted does not does not fill me with the same amount of despair as other areas of people-kinds battle with ourselves, it really is making a difference. Landfill volumes are decreasing, and recycling is increasing, a careful set of taxes are pushing people away from landfill. General waste is now costing around £100 a ton to dispose of.

It is interesting to hear that the world economic downturn has helped has helped reduce waste, BUT!! that is because the turnover is lower, not because people are better at using less waste!

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Politicians and their muddled thinking.

When will green thinking become unified, we cannot put aside our good farmland for nature projects whilst we rely on imports. It’s not fair that we hurtle towards the 80% emissions cuts whilst we chow down on Brazilian beef cooked in a Chinese oven with French electricity. LDV and Rover will add to these carbon savings, but in their place we have unemployment and hundreds of failing subsidiary businesses that depended on their custom. We must see new jobs created in green industries in the UK; there must be jobs. If we build a solar panel in England and it is 5% less efficient and 5% more money than the German one then, that is fine it is British and will get better in time.

Interference with farming annoys me; British farms should be producing more food WHY? So we don’t have to IMPORT everything. 90% of apples are foreign, beef from brazil, lamb from New Zealand, and we are flooding good farm land for marsh warblers, and fencing off streams to increase bio diversity, does any one stop to think of the container ship laboring through heavy seas from the southern hemisphere, laden with low welfare standard meat, burning heavy marine oils as it does so?

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