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Working in a supermarket drives me mental! Not only is the work sensationally dull, but the amount of waste created makes me mad. It's very stressful.
I don't believe it!
One box this evening was particulaly irritating. It was about 50cm square by about 40 cm high and made of some of the thickest, densest cardboard I've ever encountered. Inside was a myriad of folded cardboard seperating just four frying pans from each other, apparently to ensure that they didn't get scratched. However, it would appear that these frying pans were particularly prone to damage as they were also covered in a layer of plastic and each had a collar of cardboard around the neck, for what purpose I don't know. The amount of packaging that these frying pans require would make you think they were made of particularly fragile glass, not stainless steel. I weighed the resultant mess at 1.25 kilos; how ridiculous, all this rubbish just for four frying pans which once upon the hanger were free to smash into each other anyway!
What really gets on my nerves about all this is that not only is the cost of all this crap passed on to the consumer, eliminating nearly all of it would have almost no effect upon our lives whatsoever, whereas the benefits to the environment are great, both in terms of reduced rubbish to dispose of, but in terms of reducing the CO2 emissions created in the manufacture of such useless items.
I get so annoyed at the UK government waffling on about sticking so-called "green taxes" on travel to stop us polluting in aspects of our lives that would effect us to quite a large degree, when they could tax wasteful amounts of packaging out of existence and achieve similar reductions in CO2 emissions with very little effect on our lives. Not that I'm against encouraging people to think more before taking flights that are often not needed, just that there are so many other ways in which the government could cut CO2 emissions by providing real leadership instead of relying on crisis management taxation which imposes restrictions upon freedom of travel.
Of course, people shouldn't have the right to frivolously go careering around in planes contributing wildly to global warming, but governments do have the responsibility to explore the methods of reducing CO2 outputs that are the easiest and least disruptive to people's lifestyles, before stuffing taxes on travelling around when it is these very same governments who have encouraged us to lead lives which require so much travel. In this respect the UK government is about as much use as a clockwork orange.
All this from a box of frying pans.
I told you that working in a supermarket was stressful.
I don't believe it!
One box this evening was particulaly irritating. It was about 50cm square by about 40 cm high and made of some of the thickest, densest cardboard I've ever encountered. Inside was a myriad of folded cardboard seperating just four frying pans from each other, apparently to ensure that they didn't get scratched. However, it would appear that these frying pans were particularly prone to damage as they were also covered in a layer of plastic and each had a collar of cardboard around the neck, for what purpose I don't know. The amount of packaging that these frying pans require would make you think they were made of particularly fragile glass, not stainless steel. I weighed the resultant mess at 1.25 kilos; how ridiculous, all this rubbish just for four frying pans which once upon the hanger were free to smash into each other anyway!
What really gets on my nerves about all this is that not only is the cost of all this crap passed on to the consumer, eliminating nearly all of it would have almost no effect upon our lives whatsoever, whereas the benefits to the environment are great, both in terms of reduced rubbish to dispose of, but in terms of reducing the CO2 emissions created in the manufacture of such useless items.
I get so annoyed at the UK government waffling on about sticking so-called "green taxes" on travel to stop us polluting in aspects of our lives that would effect us to quite a large degree, when they could tax wasteful amounts of packaging out of existence and achieve similar reductions in CO2 emissions with very little effect on our lives. Not that I'm against encouraging people to think more before taking flights that are often not needed, just that there are so many other ways in which the government could cut CO2 emissions by providing real leadership instead of relying on crisis management taxation which imposes restrictions upon freedom of travel.
Of course, people shouldn't have the right to frivolously go careering around in planes contributing wildly to global warming, but governments do have the responsibility to explore the methods of reducing CO2 outputs that are the easiest and least disruptive to people's lifestyles, before stuffing taxes on travelling around when it is these very same governments who have encouraged us to lead lives which require so much travel. In this respect the UK government is about as much use as a clockwork orange.
All this from a box of frying pans.
I told you that working in a supermarket was stressful.
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