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@stewgreen, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:51 PM
similar to your links story about Books
Guido commentator's long story about Oxfam staff
: How they often have own separate business to sell quality stuff they filter out of donations
The staff enriching themselves by creaming off anything of value is something I've long suspected.
Reinforced when I saw valuable items sitting in a lane outside back door of, yes, an Oxfam shop. Hung around contemplating did I want, should I get car and be late? Then Volvo estate car arrived and all loaded into back.
Later, after meeting, popped in to tell store staff, asked for manager - she appeared and was Volvo driver.
Thanks for link confirming it's common practice.
Pcar
Meanwhile it snows in the Middle East
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5322283/Wintry-blast-sweeps-Middle-East.html
TinyCO2
SJWism is like mosquitoes in the tropics
always popping up sniping at you.
20:37pm BBC4 Simon Reeve "Oh we've just come up against unexpected rain ..so Climate Change"
And there is this stupid interview where he just feeds lines to the "expert" who says "yes" all the time
.."So this could meanmore extreme weather " "yes"
.."So this could mean the end for the coffee industry " "yes"
(It's a repeat prog about Coffee farmers in Vietnam ..I was there in 1994 when there only 1 main road, travelling in the west interior was difficult)
FFS He's on Twitter
\\ 'EU declares war on plastic waste '...etc...by 2030. Pathetic.
Our seas will be full of #plasticwaste by then.
May's 'plan' (mainly just asking nicely for firms to stop using plastic) is even more useless. //
stewgreen
It's not just Germany, France, Netherlands etc, but Sweden too:
"Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase":
http://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/environment/environmental-accounts-and-sustainable-development/system-of-environmental-and-economic-accounts/pong/statistical-news/environmental-accounts--emissions-to-air-q3-2016/
"Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2017-01-31 9.30
For the third quarter in a row greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase according to new statistics from Statistics Sweden’s Environmental Accounts. The increase is mainly in electricity and heat production, the transport industries and the manufacturing industry. Emissions from households decreased in the same period.
The Environmental Accounts at Statistics Sweden presents emissions to air from the Swedish economy, or ‘production-based’ emissions... Preliminary statistics on emissions by industry for the third quarter of 2016 are now available.
In the third quarter of 2016, greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy and households amounted to 15.0 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents. This is an increase of 2.8 percent compared with the same quarter in 2015, but a decrease compared with the same quarter in 2014. This is the third quarter in a row that emissions levels increase. Compared with 2015, GDP growth was 2.6 percent in the third quarter.
The increase in the emissions level is visible in several industries, although mainly in electricity, gas and heating, the transport industries and the manufacturing industry. The increased emissions in electricity, gas and heating production are a return from unusually low emissions levels in the second and third quarter of 2015 due to temporary disruptions at some plants. Increased emissions from the transport industries come from increased deliveries of fuels to both aviation and maritime traffic."
Mark Hodgson
You couldn't make it up.
The latest edition of the Waitrose Weekend has an article of how fish n'chippies may help in the fight against global warming. Wish I could tell you more, but I just couldn't face the disappointment of reading it.
Supertroll
Jan 28, 2018 at 2:17 PM | stewgreen
The elf and safety PC plods have decided that the collection, transport, storage, cleaning, sterilisation etc of DIRTY milk bottles is just too dangerous an activity. The Green Blob have made sure that the energy required is too expensive.
The Left hand needs to blame the Left hand, but can't smack itself.
golf charlie
tomo
Eco-warriors BBC Radio Lincs are plugging bottled milk again
..then the milkman makes the comment that "yeh we use each bottle 25 times , and then it goes back to the suppliers and they smash them up and make new bottles"
..FFS that doesn't seem very ecological ..that's a lot of energy
I've re-used a plastic bottle or flask hundreds of times.
stewgreen
Behold the Left's Duplicity
Reverse Pay Gap: Tory MPs are paying their female staff better than their men – but Labour gives men more cash than women
Irony, irony wherefore art thee?