Its a bit like declaring you have the cure for cancer..everybody wants it, but no one would believe you if you actually said you had discovered it. The solution is very easy to understand, relatively simple to implement and puts the power into the hands of the consumer where it rightly belongs. Furthermore we could have the first stages completed by Easter. There are no doubt hundreds of solutions which could be lined up according to which was the most ideal. Given the enemy of time this might be the best and most workable anyone can come up with. Its not my own but I agree with it. If you agree I will ask you to do as I have done and make a post to a forum with the link at the bottom. The manufacturing process creates a resource pyramid. So that if the end consumer item is wasted then all of the resources that went into it are also wasted. For example 1 tonne of copy paper requires 92 tonnes of natural resources (timber, kaolin, water, coal for electricity, chemical bleaches etc). So each sheet of copy paper wastes 92 times its own weight. This has a compound affect through the supply chain so that by the time it gets back to the beginning the wasteage implication has been magnified by a factor of 9200%. In short the solution is to begin labelling products with their resource input : output ratio. In the case of copy paper this will be, depending on brand, 92:1. The higher the resource input number, the greater the processing refinement required, and this means greater industrial pollution into the greenhouse. By putting the ratio on products the consumer can then see what the environmental cost is of products relative to the available substitutes. Efficient manufacturers will then be rewarded with a greater market share. Those products with a very high ratio on the label can then be evaluated as to whether or not they are truly worth the cost. All products cost the earth, its time we knew how much they are costing. What I ask you to do is that if you agree that consumers should have the knowledge to make informed decisions, and allow the market to decide on the best allocation of increasingly scarce resources then please do one of several things. 1. Put you name on the petition to have the labelling legistlation passed. http://www.petitiononline.com/clapstyx/petition.html 2. Put the link in your email signature box 3. Make a post to another forum with a short explanation of how you see the plan being useful from your perspective including the above link. This christmas consider buying one gift that doesnt cost the earth and give it to someone who knows it didnt.
What about lead acid batteries? If one cell dies but the other five are still alive , it has to be discarded.Why cannot they make single 2v batteries and tag them together in a single plastic case?
i think americans would just get a kick out of that. theyd brag who could have the most wasteful product, or who could wear the most wasteful clothing.
^ ^ ^sad but funny at the same time. I'd say americans wouldnt even notice the new manufacturing labels. You'd have about the same luck trying to get people to make the realization that stuff costs energy, that you would trying to make people stop throwing cigerette butts on the jersey shore boardwalk.
