Everytime I watch TV (which is probably too much :H ) I am getting more concerned at the amount of ad's for disposable cleaning products that are advertised. The latest is disposable toilet brushes, but there are also disposable mops, cloths, and dusters. The advertising slant is based upon not allowing germs to stay in your house, yet what sort of impact is the disposal of these products having upon the enviroment? Our local council tries to promote recycling but how is this acheivable when "disposable" is such an easy option.
Im a jif and rag fan...probably because thats what my mum used..scary to think that mabye in 10 years it won't be available anymore.
It does. If you are around several mild germs, etc, your body can easily build up a resistance to them, usually without you getting ill. Then when more dangerous germs come along it's harder to catch them, because the body knows how to cope. However if we do not have access to any germs at all, when the big ones come along you don't know what to do and fall ill.
Yup. This is a proven fact. It's how we develp an immune system. What really pissed me off the other day was discovering that our local health food store charges more for refills of washing liquid bottles than it does for buying a brand new bottle. How the fuck does that work? Refills = lower packaging costs, lower production costs, lower distribution costs..... but hey, let's take the opportunity to make more money out of the customer!
there must be a way of recycling all the bits used in these "disposable items" what gets me is i have a room full of stuff..i have so much stuff it scares me..i ve wantede to get rid of it (as a lot is junk) .... but a lot of things people wouldnt want (old hair brushes and old hair bands or broken earings or dirty pencil cases etc) ... bit i dont know what a lot of them come under for recycling also some of them i think maybe someonne might want ....... and i feel absolutely horrible when i tidy my room cos ihave so much stuff... any thing i throw away i know where it goes (out the back of my house into the giant tip/landfill site )
I really hate disposable cameras, even though they do get recycled.. I would just feel bad about throwing out something like a camera.
yeesh, yeah, it's crazy...im sorry, but lemons and vineger rock socks!!! for cleaning products, i'd suggest ecover, you can get it from most organicy type shops, and some health food shops, and i think a few supermarkets stock it, such as waitrose...it's much better for you and the enviroment. and not only does our emune system get better if we allow ourselves to come into contact with mild bacterior, by using these things that kill bacterior, we are wasting a valuable resource, they will evolve resistances to them, and we can no longer use them!!!
