The British environmental minister is urging his countrymen to leave excess packaging at the checkout as a statement to grocery stores that they shouldn’t stock over-wrapped products. What I find most interesting about this story is one, how receptive the companies interviewed seem to be (I guess PC dictates compliance) but also the fact that there is a minister of environment in Britain and that he advocates civil disobedience.
This link, like so many before it, was scouted by the incomparable Kimberly.
everydaytrash 
Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 12:06 am |
The 4th interesting thing is that the Guardian has an entire news section for the Environment, which has a subsection called Ethical Living (among others). I’m sure the NYT would find that straying too far from the grail of objectivity: most of their environmental reporting seems to land in the Science section.
I tried to get wifi through verizon – a minor fiasco – and when I asked for a return mailing label to send back the (incomplete and wrong) equipment they had sent me, they told me that would cost them more than the stuff is worth, and that I should “just throw it away”. I thought about sending it all back, plus maybe with some of my recycling….tempting, but then, i just posted on freecycle nyc. not really packaging, per se, but in this case the manufacturer won’t even take back its own product, let alone the packaging.
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 9:28 pm |
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.