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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #225 on: February 27, 2023, 06:05:34 PM »
Do any of you get a cap on your energy prices?


Also: we have been told not to remove caps from plastic bottles, watching a programme earlier and the family were taking them off!   No wonder the public is confused!  ::)
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« Reply #226 on: March 12, 2023, 12:32:29 PM »
It must be awful to buy your home then watch the sea approaching every year until diggers move the cabin so that the owner has to move  :-\.  However, why weren't owners ready to move? 

How many of us have a grab bag, know where the essential paper work might be as well as keys and a torch to hand?  Having learned that King Canute wasn't able to stop the tide ..... or was it another King whilst the cakes burned?   ;D  ::)

If the local Councils are 'saving money' but not propping up the shore line then that money (if there is indeed any) , should be helping people buy some land so that they can move their cabin or rebuild  :-\

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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #227 on: July 15, 2023, 06:25:12 AM »
Climate activists set for march near Grangemouth oil refinery - Ineos



You couldn't write it!  Scrolling through the Press photos of this proposed event, shows a lot of plastics being used.  The activitists are sleeping in small tents - all with plastics in them; hand wash - in plastic bottles; chopping boards - made of plastic.  OK so they would argue that they are used and washed regularly.  However  >:(
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #228 on: July 26, 2023, 06:37:03 PM »
Another ship containing electric vehicles ablaze in the Channel  >:(

Four years ago, 270 shipping containers, some containing chemicals, fell off another Panamanian-registered cargo ship in a storm and some of the containers washed up on Dutch beaches.

But the latest fire has also raised issues surrounding the risks of transporting electric vehicles.

Last year, a cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars caught fire and sank off the Azores. Lithium-ion batteries in the cars caught fire on board the Felicity Ace.
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #229 on: August 11, 2023, 04:45:48 PM »
Over 50 authors have called on the Edinburgh International Book festival to cut ties with one of its sponsors over climate concerns.

A joint letter urges organisers to put pressure on Baillie Gifford over its investment in fossil fuels.

The festival director later called for an "open discussion" about the issue during the event, which starts on Saturday.

Baillie Gifford has said it is not a significant investor in the sector.

Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Gary Younge are among those who have signed the open letter ahead of the literary festival.

It comes after climate activist Greta Thunberg last week cancelled an appearance at the event.
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Surely if all these people feel that there is a conflict of interests they shouldn't attend this event?  Greenwashing reigns ?  They don't listen to themselves !  >:(
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #230 on: August 24, 2023, 02:12:13 PM »
A wind turbine caught fire last week in the Wash ........ how much pollution would that have caused  >:(  :bang: :rant:
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #231 on: September 17, 2023, 11:57:59 AM »
Sadiq Khan flies to New York for global climate summit

This is the man that imposes a stealth tax on vehicles entering the Capital  >:( most of the M25 is similarly affected as well as people going to the Airports.   :bang: :bang:  they simply have NO IDEA  :cuss:
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #232 on: September 17, 2023, 06:32:46 PM »
It's always the same. You can't drive your car but they can fly somewhere every weekend.
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #233 on: September 17, 2023, 08:09:07 PM »
I'll start another thread on car manufacturing
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #234 on: September 19, 2023, 07:08:15 PM »
Why don't the Royals admit that they want a holiday abroad, rather than tarting it up as a 'conference' here, there, anywhere?  To which they hardly cycle do they!  Some conservation award event that they feel they have to attend ......... to give out prizes  :-\


New York :The 15 global innovators, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and activists working to find cutting-edge solutions to climate change, will be honoured at The Prize’s annual awards ceremony in Singapore this November.

For the first time, the awards ceremony will be accompanied by a week-long series of events dubbed Earthshot Week.

These events will be aimed at mobilising and scaling innovative solutions to protect and repair the planet.

Members of the public will also be invited to experience local activations centred on the 2023 cohort of Earthshot Prize solutions.



Perhaps I've lost the gist  :-\ of climate change risk when we are told to go electric but every man and his dog can fly/cruise where they want?    It was on the 1 Show earlier, apparently there are two British finalists who have good ideas, however!!  one is how to stop the marbles off road tyres .......
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #235 on: September 20, 2023, 06:38:28 PM »
Abandoned tents from Leeds Festival are being transformed into clothing by the owners of a sustainable fashion store.

Hundreds of tents as well as clothes, sleeping bags and other equipment were left behind at Bramham Park after the annual event last month.

Josefin Wanner and James Fenwick, who own Tad Collective, in Headingly, said they had upcycled salvaged material.

Mr Fenwick said the fabric would be turned into "useful things" and would help "avoid landfill".
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #236 on: October 18, 2023, 10:03:56 PM »
DH looked at the Photos of Greta Thurnberg - it appears that she is wearing a puffer jacket which will be made with a % of retro-chemicals  ::). And how did she get from Sweden to England to take part in yet another 'event' in which she was arrested.  What a waste of Police time  >:(

We've had newly designed packages which can be pulled apart to separate the bubble wrap from the outer cover that has the address and stamp on, ideal for wrapping small items of china ready to sell ;-).  The outer cover then goes into recycling.  Do I look smug: you Betcha  ;D
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #237 on: October 19, 2023, 12:08:54 PM »
Quote from: CLKD on October 18, 2023, 10:03:56 PM
DH looked at the Photos of Greta Thurnberg - it appears that she is wearing a puffer jacket which will be made with a % of retro-chemicals  ::). And how did she get from Sweden to England to take part in yet another 'event' in which she was arrested.  What a waste of Police time  >:(

We've had newly designed packages which can be pulled apart to separate the bubble wrap from the outer cover that has the address and stamp on, ideal for wrapping small items of china ready to sell ;-).  The outer cover then goes into recycling.  Do I look smug: you Betcha  ;D

She has hitched a ride on a yacht in the past to cross the Atlantic. Not and easy thing to do but very climate conscious  ::)
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #238 on: October 19, 2023, 12:10:06 PM »
Ah but U forget that the yacht in question was dismantled and flown back  ::)

She's there again, amongst others who R wearing wooly hats - synthetic, mayB  :-\
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Re: Plastics / Climate change
« Reply #239 on: November 07, 2023, 01:12:33 PM »
So Prince William is in Singapore - how did he get there ?  :-\
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