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Author Topic: Plastics / Climate change  (Read 54462 times)

Gynaikeíos

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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #195 on: November 03, 2021, 06:52:20 AM »
Hello ladies, I know the answer about sheep wool. It is that it is not worth much at all because so many people in the world buy clothes and household items that are made from plastics from petrochemicals. Too many people think their cheap plastic carpet or cheap plastic  jumper is brilliant and do not want to think about the damage to the planet that it has caused. If it was made of wool it would be part of a natural system, not the artificial planet damaging fossil fuel system.
We have a sheepskin rug (not from the process of shearing  :D of course  ;D ) that is beautiful and will outlast us. It will be put in composting when  it is too  tatty and it will return the carbon it stores safely into the soil to be locked away.

It is amazing to watch wool skilfully sheared from sheep. I helped a friend and tried wrapping the shorn fleece and putting it into the wool pack. The sheep looked happy afterwards in the summer weather with their coats clipped  :)

I have just thought  ... does Greta wear plastic clothes? Even recycled plastic clothes give off microplastic microfibres, I understand. Microplastics get into the soil and the air. There are no wool fibres on Mount Everest but many millions of microplastic micrifibres.
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #196 on: November 03, 2021, 10:08:09 AM »
Try saying "micro plastic microfibres" this early in the morning  ;D.  Good points.  All my aunts, grannies, neighbours knitted clothing which was passed down through the cousins.  If it got too small the wool would be unwound, washed gently, hung on the line to drip then re-used.  In the 1990s Mum knitted me a waistcoat - I see they are 'back' in fashion  8) - and from all the bits of wool left over the years, made a blanket which is on our bed.  A few of the squares are in the waistcoat wool.  Is that taking recycling too far?

Then fast fashion came along. 
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CLKD

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Items made from Plastics
« Reply #197 on: November 05, 2021, 10:31:07 AM »
Trainers ! 

A few years kids had to buy the latest trainers in order to 'keep up.  Last night I read an interesting article ............  :whist:


Here we are: from 'Why Today's. youth aren't as green as they think they are ' - Judith Woods, Telegraph

Trainers cause 1.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.  To put that into context, aviation causes 2.5%.  ......... "There are 25 billion pairs of running shoes made every year - enough to go round the earth 300 times - and most made from plastic", says Angela Terry, founder of eco-consultancy One House.  "Most are made from polyurethane, nylon or latex which are fossil-fuel products, plus each of the separate elements is mass produced in 63 different factories in far-flung parts of Asia and each has a supply chain of it's own"

Go figure.  Never thought about that! How many of your young people living 'at home' help around the house, sorting the items for recycling etc.?  How many keep their gadgets on standby overnight .............  ::). How many want mums and dads to ferry them around in the family gas burning vehicle whilst at the same time, banging on about what everyone should be doing to save the Planet  ;D
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CLKD

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now that takes the biscuit!
« Reply #198 on: December 22, 2021, 03:08:51 PM »
One of the world's deadliest snakes has been found in Salford after it survived a 4,000 mile trip in a shipment from Pakistan.

The saw-scaled viper was discovered in a container of bricks, which had been delivered to Manchester Brick Specialist last month.


so now we are importing bricks which are quite intensive to make, weigh heavily and ........... we had a brick industry in Peterborough!
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Cop27 ......... Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #199 on: November 07, 2022, 09:36:24 AM »
Why is anyone flying to Egypt to meet up to discuss climate change  >:(  :-\ or have *I* got the wrong end of the stick .......

Why has Boris gone?  Why isn't he here, sorting out his Constituency etc..  In his position I would have kept my head well down!!!!  >:( and who is the PM to 'tell' the King that he isn't allowed to go ..........

Well done Charles for hosting your own 'event' - however, again it could be done on ZOOM - as it meant people travelling to get to London  :bang: :bang: :bang:
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #200 on: November 07, 2022, 10:17:43 AM »
Don’t think you can drink champagne and eat canapés on Zoom CLKD  ;D
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Cop27. Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #201 on: November 07, 2022, 10:39:24 AM »
 :lol: :rofl: :drunk:
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COP26 Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #202 on: November 07, 2022, 06:12:16 PM »
These people that are holding up traffic on the motorways etc.: don't they realise that emissions will be more because of vehicles stoppping/starting, trying to get to work !?!?!

It seems that the 'experts' spout the same old.  Same old.  Where ever they R in the World.  Every year  :argue:
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Minusminnie

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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #203 on: November 07, 2022, 08:28:23 PM »
I had to come out of a popular toy store yesterday. Grandson wants a certain toy for Christmas but floor to ceiling plastic toys in that store was just so depressing.
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COP 26 Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #204 on: November 07, 2022, 08:44:53 PM »
??? China ???? [as an aside, the e-Mini will be manufactured in China  >:( - ]
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Marchlove

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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #205 on: November 07, 2022, 08:51:20 PM »
We’re to pay reparations to Pakistan and China now  :-\
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #206 on: November 08, 2022, 09:07:23 AM »
 :cuss:
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G20 - in Thailand
« Reply #207 on: November 15, 2022, 01:09:00 PM »
Another jolly for our 'leaders' plus journalists?  What happened to ZOOM meetings?  :beat:
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #208 on: November 28, 2022, 09:26:31 PM »
....... and if that Matt Hancock dares open his gob about climate change  :bang: having flown to Oz and back  :-X  ;D
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #209 on: November 28, 2022, 10:14:49 PM »
Quite agree CLKD!

It’s completely ridiculous that a show like that is, so say, climate friendly.

It makes no sense,  but hey, it’s an entertainment programme, that’s all.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be worried :-*
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