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Dont get me started on T****

I HATE them and I dont use the word lightly.

They are trying to open a huge store in my town when already they have taken over the Somerfield store and have 2 other express stores here.  Now our only choice is them or Lidl.  Unfortunately its a small Lidl and you cant buy everything from them.

I went into the new store the day they opened and told them what I think of them, made me feel much better but all they do is move in take over and end up closing the small businesses (like me) down. By the way I took their free reusable bag gladly but wont ever use it lol

HATE HATE HATE LOL

Sassy

Having just read all the way through this thread, I can fully understand a lot of the frustration and anger that is displayed here, unfortunately a lot of the comments are also a country mile from the truth.

Statements such as the landfilling of plastics as they can`t be burnt is fantasy, as they can be recycled (and are), and are washed granulated and re-used (fleeces are regularly made from scrap plastic bottles). And yes you can incinerate plastic.

Electrical goods are now subject to WEEE regulations, so landfill again is a no-no. The glass, metals (including the precious ones such as gold and platinum found in components and circuitry), insulation etc are recovered.

Unfortunately, stuff does still go to landfill that shouldn`t. A few years ago I had to sort out the landfilling of over 500 brand-new, still plastic-wrapped, mattresses from a hospital that had been made 6" too short. The girl I dealt with at the manufacturers was heartbroken as she couldn`t send them to (for instance) the orphans in Romania because of product liability legislation which would render them to prosecution/compensation claims should the recipients feel inclined to be unappreciative!

It very often isn`t that people/companies don`t want to recycle (and with landfill costs at £40.00 per tonne in taxation alone + a similar amount payable to the site operator, it usually make commercial sense), it is that they are hamstrung by legislation.

Quote: Originally posted by debbie36 on 21/8/2009

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As a brownie and guide leader, when i read things like this it makes me so angry.  we are a voluntary organisation who rely on donations and subs to be able to offer girls  opportunities that they wouldnt normally be able to do. All those tents would have enabled us to take hundreds of girls camping.

And as for watching the u tube video, i am truly appalled by that and perhaps as a guide leader it is something i should show the girls as they will be the future glastonbury audience!

We are a very disposable society which isnt helped by the supermarkets who actively encourage us to be that way.

 

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Email them and tell them  that - ask if you can have the next lot!

 

I'd be very intrigued to see what they say.

Quote: Originally posted by kayfamily on 21/8/2009

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Our local waste guys have a contract disposing lcd tv's for a major brand - quite often see pallets of 'last years model' turning up. They actually drill a whole straight through the middle of the box/screen so no one will half inch them once they have left the factory.

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It's bonkers, isn't it?

My hub. and I used to work in schools, and when the local education system was reorganised, changing the age-range of all the schools in the area, there was massive, massive waste.  Furniture from desks to library shelving, some of it only two or three years old, was skipped by the ton.  Thousands of perfectly good, relatively new wooden items and good books just tossed out to the county tip.  Worst of all, my hub. ran the IT department, and dozens of nearly-new computers and printers and scanners all bit the dust.  It was horrifying!

They couldn`t give the stuff away `for health and safety` reasons, although there was a certain amount of judicious `rescue` going on. I believe our laptop might have found its way from the school skip into the back of our car, quite by accident!  Amazing how these laptops have a mind of their own!  

A few years ago the parents were asked to send toys and games and books to fill gift boxes for the Christmas Child charity.  I found one of the teachers going through the boxes simply binning anything that didn`t match the rather strict code the charity had placed on the donated items.  I was very happy the code was being adhered to, but less happy that the items were just being thrown away, and the parents, who had paid good money for the toys, would have been shellshocked!  At the very least they could have been donated to other charities who had no problem, say, with books written in English or toys with small working parts.

And don`t even get me started on the sacks of food we filled every lunchtime... some of the stuff in the kids` lunchboxes hadn`t even been opened, but they threw it away in case mum was cross that it hadn`t been eaten...

I grieve at the waste that goes on these days.

EDIT: I just took time to view the YouTube video of Glastonbury The Aftermath.

That sure trumps my school's daily binbags of lunchbox waste.  It was truly incredible and sobering.  It made me feel quite poorly...

FoO

Dear FriendOfOwls

I'm not surprised you're  Your stories of the schools behaviour is just so disgusting - it really makes me MAD  What a crazy world we live in, it's shocking.

Quote: Originally posted by andyains on 20/8/2009

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Here's a film from You Tube showing the utter waste of camping equipment left behind after this year's Glastonbury festival. Absolutely frightening. Apologies if this has been posted before

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I have only just seen that film and I am absolutely disgusted. What makes it even more disgusting is that I would like to bet that a good majority of the people who left that stuff behind on that day probably spend other days campagning for various environmental and world health issues and some may even go on marches and carry out violence in aid of their hypocritical causes. If nothing else they have more money than sense.

At the beginning the Glastonbury Festival and other festivals that sprang up in the 60's were created and attended by hippies and others who were concerned about the state of the earth, illness, poverty and starvation. They now seem to have been taken over by people who, in their selfishness, are directly responsible for many of the worlds problems.

At my age, I already believe the world would be a lovely place if it wasn't for people...that film proves it!