Who’d have thought it!
Pissing in the wind is in the Cambridge Dictionary, an idiom.
I chose it as everything I try to do is futile and makes not one bit of difference to anything.
Diary of a nobody, I read, is a novel (a very successful one at that).
No breach of copyright is intended, I’m literally a nobody and this is my online diary.
Anyways…
Tackling “Climate change” one step at a time (I’m not a believer that CO2 is the problem – try tackling vast amounts of methane being pumped into the atmosphere – climate always changes, always has, always will.)
- Businesses should stop producing so many waste products – packaging, etc.
- Reduce the amount of landfill and rubbish dumps around the world – methane is far more dangerous to the atmosphere than CO2
- Make it so that every garden in the UK has a composting bin
- Don’t bury non compostable/recyclable waste (plastics and the like) burn them to create more of the so-called “clean” electricity we are told to use.
Why’s he papping on about climate you say?
Yesterday I put the burner on for the first time since March.
I save close to three dog food sacks of crisp wrappers, boxes, shiny junk mail, “Burn letters” (those with name and address on that are confidential) and various other wrappers and cartons.
Then I use them as firelighters along with dried logs for the burner.
Less waste, less landfill and heating my home, so less energy used. Even the ashes are put in to the compost.
Plus, composting non cooked food waste, along with garden waste, means I have ready made compost every year, cheaper for me (not really as I cannot afford to keep buying compost) so at least I have something to feed the garden with.
There’s no money for business to be made in dealing with the landfill problem, which we’ve already paid for numerous times over. No profits dealing with methane.
The issue is dealing with the waste that corporates create.
Interesting facts (or not if you don’t give a shite)…
- Methane is many times more dangerous to the environment than CO2, even though it stays in the atmosphere for years less
- Energy cannot be created, it can only be converted from another source of energy (burning waste creates energy, which can then be used)
- If you recycle your own waste via a compost bin/heap, you will cut the supply of greedy local councils, that charge you to take away the waste they then dump on to huge compost heaps and sell back to the people for yet more profit – just as damaging to the environment, only you don’t have to pay for the waste to be taken away and get to reap the rewards of having free compost 6 months later, when you’re planting out
- Homegrown fruit and veg tastes miles better than supermarket crap, you can even grow it in your house
- Garden waste is better off being put on the base of trees in your garden. Rhubarb leaves, grass cuttings, etc. all feed plants and your soil, rotting away in a short time
Here endeth the lesson.
I grew up with recycling all around me, glass milk bottles, local greengrocers and the like.
There’s only one reason there’s so much waste, cheaper for corporates to make more profits.
There’s a reason why they won’t pay more than 10% of the clean up costs and the taxpayer gets shafted for the remaining 90% of the costs…