Anyone else seen this latest shockumentary from Netflix ?

"Buy Now". Very interesting if a bit crass, but hell man, we are all being taken for a ride and cars included.

Personally I'm no fashionista, so I'm not impacted as much as those hipsters and "have to haves", but still, made me think how much junk I really go through that I need not.



Take heed, it will come back to bite us, maybe not us, but more likely our offspring for sure.

A. Fuji White / Jet 2012 4.4 TDV8 Westminster

Will have to watch that, the trailer is setting the scene well.

The USA has a lot to answer for here, although Europe is not blameless. The scale of the waste though is breath taking.

J

We use about 60kg of plastic per head. I’m not sure but believe we recycle about ten percent.

Recent U.N. talks to encourage recycling collapsed without agreement, mainly due to oil producing countries including Iran & Russia


Financial Times,
UN plastics treaty talks fail after oil producers block output limits
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Madeleine Speed in London and Amanda Chu in New York
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Read the full article at:

https://on.ft.com/3ViJq0Q

Or Google the headline. Filters are in fact so good that in certain circumstances, when the ambient air is already polluted, a diesel car will tend to extract more particles from the air than it emits. Emissions Analytics worked with........etc etc

He who dies with the most toys wins...

I've just bought a technical book on Amazon for my work. Its a normal (A4) size book, about 200 pages and it was delivered today in a HUGE box with a load of paper packaging!

Why not just put it in an envelope?

And for that matter, why didn't I just order it from our local bookshop.........

I really think we should go back to half day closing on a Wednesday and all shops closed on a Sunday, and do the same with Amazon!!

Finally got around to watching this, very shocking the impact of the waste that we produce.

If you haven’t seen it yet I would very much recommend it.

J

Yes, but we can obviously carry on driving out big has guzzling range rovers because, hey, if it's alright for our illustrious prime minister plus god knows how many BBC journalists and reporters can fly from the UK to Albania ( or wherever) then all fly to Brazil for a climate meeting and back to the UK then that's all ok.

Would love to know how he's going to carbon offset that little jaunt!
Perhaps save some money for the next jolly by removing pensioner's winter fuel allowance!
Surely not?

It's pretty outrageous but buying stuff does feel good

I feel represented by this comment. I'm typical of AuDHD... spend hours researching and refining every tiny detail of something I want, and then buy it.... the good feeling lasts about 2 days... more if the item/service is really good, e.g. my Festool Track Saw makes me smile every time I use it.

that said, I get frustrated when buying stuff that has ridiculous packaging. my 18" Band Saw was full of expanded polystyrene. That's a pain to get rid of... notwithstanding potentially "making a solution with Xylene" as that's close to a very antisocial compound.

I took it all to the tip, filled my last L322 to the gunwales. Would have made about 1l of "unhelpful solvent waste"

Table saw was much better, bolted into a wooden crate, I "won" several pieces of usable 10mm ply, and some angle brackets- much better situation for me, and it meant not still finding tiny polystyrene balls in the boot/under the back seats.

I just get dismayed with the waste. Sometimes it's egregious-paper straws in a plastic wrapper! I know that plastics in general will endure,due to the other products from the petro-chemical industry, but my Father-in-law has had a nightmare with his iPace "Jaguar" and other friends are in a lot of negative equity from terrible EVs. Even if we land on a sustainable battery technology, my mates in DNO's are terrified of the load on the grid infrastructure. imagine 6 cars in close grouping pulling high amps from a (average) 32 sqmm cable they'll glow in the dark, there is 20 years of work to upgrade our kit to allow fast(ish) chargers to connect your car to it. i was given an anecdote by a guy whose actual words were "I'm glad I'm retiring next month" where at half time in the 1966 world cup, there were brownouts when everyone put the kettle on. Good luck with an EV charger.

We will get there, but it's not around the corner.

Waste, however, has been an issue for all my life. the "right to repair" hsn't made a dent.

Anyhow, ignore me, I'm a moron. Formerly happymadison1978