MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands prepares for the Big Plastic Count, starting next week
Next week (16th-22nd May), Falkland Islands residents should consider taking part in Falkland Conservation’s Big Plastic Count. Inspired by Greenpeace's plastic count in the UK, Falklands Conservation are launching an island-wide survey with the aim of recording all plastic used by Falklands residents in just one week. Read full article
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May 17th, 2022 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. Jo Bloggs...
May 18th, 2022 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree 100% with your missus decision...
In the case of them remote, outlying Malvinas such People's Conscientization PR Gimmick makes absolutely *no sense...
*(Other than irritate reasonable folks..., that is...)
If the Malvinas Conservation needs to...: “discover how much plastic waste the population creates” they can just ask the FIG(leaf)...
They know exactly what products come into them windblown Islands..., don't they...
(Cross-Border trade & smuggling being..., by force..., insignificant... :-)
Chuckle...,chuckle...
Think
May 18th, 2022 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought this article was about you, then I saw the “o”.
Think
May 19th, 2022 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Every now and then you speak sense. Although the organisation in the article is Falklands Conservation.
I understand that they are most likely asking individuals to do this for them in an attempt to raise awareness... however, as you point out, there are far simpler and more efficient ways to collect the data.
I am fully in support of reducing plastic waste. When there is an option to avoid plastic I take it. But when there is not, I don't. So no survey is going to change my habits.
Some left-winged, lesbian feminist invaded my personal space in the West Store some years ago and tried to tell me what was wrong with everything in my trolley. When politely asking her to leave me alone didn't work, I told a member of staff that the annoying individual was harassing me. The following day I got a call from FIC head office from someone who apologised and tell me the silly woman had be instructed to stop doing it.
In my experience of the global crisis so far, lots of people have pet issues that they cling to but pretty much shoot themselves in the foot in other areas. The woman described above drove an old. large 4x4 diesel. Falklands Conservation drive old 4x4 diesels. Friends preach to me about using the throwaway coffee cups instead of taking my own reusable to the store. However all of them, bar none, do at least three of the following things at the same time:
drive large 4x4 diesels
leave their lights on unnecessarily
leave the heating on higher than they need
change their reusable cups before 2,000 uses (that's the break even point whereby they are more green than paper throwaways).
leave their vehicles idling when stopped around town
Jupppppp..., Mr. Bloggs...
May 19th, 2022 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tænk's First Law of Social-Dynamics...
“The older one gets..., the more irritating double-standards become...”
(That may well be the reason I like Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg so much...)
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