What about our environment?

Each house here has it's on recycle container that you put out once a week and they pick it up.

I should've spelt it recyclable. This version of the word recycle isn't listed in my Oxford English dictionary, though.

One of my brain cells woke up yesterday ..I felt it move and then it had an idea...

We ahve been moaning about how our council is going to cut back/charge more for rubbish collections. We do our best already we recycle green/glas/paper/fabric.. But there is nowhere to seperate and have plastic waste collected except in the household rubbish and thats whats taking up most space in the bin.

But my little brain cell reminded me that once a month we do our big shop in Germany thats where we buy most of our shampoo /washing liquids etc all of which comes in plastic bottles and the Germans love to recycle, so outside their supermarkets they have the glas /paper/fabric recyclebins but they also have one for plastic !

Simply clean and collect all our plastic waste as we go and take it back when we go shoppping!

rest now little brain cell before you get worn out..

Ww can only suggetsd it to our local council but until they do something Im going to take mine back to Germany with me,

Ok , I dont want to sound like the voice of doom or say I told you so but..... All this hype about us all having electric cars outside the door in the next 10 years..Ive always said where is all that power coming from?
Quite apart from the fact we cant make enough green energy so gas, coal or nuclear would have to be used making the whole green idea a bit of a nonsense. The network operator for electricity in the Netherlands has now said the grid is at its maximum. some cities are more affected than others but for our town there will be no new charging points for electric cars and no new connections for large businesses.
Its not just the power generating stations its the sub stations the local stations the networks in the streets. They were laid some time ago and although the capacity was there for modern housing each car charging point draws much more and the network cant cope.

Then there are warmth pumps which are often critised because they don't deliver enough heat, well here at 2mtrs below sea level it seems there isn't enough water ! so the whole project has had to be shelved for the time being.
These wonderful ideas are just that for now because out there in the real world they are running into real problems and no one has the answer to them yet.

I know I've seen some looking into adding some type of power source into the roads themselves, so then you potentially can charge while driving. That might be way into the future if anything.... lol

Actually some of these ideas have been presented ~10 years ago. I don't know how much closer they've come to reality, though.

While researching Solar Roadways just now, I came across this from the Netherlands:




I saw this video when it first came out, and the company has been making some strides. Here is the URL for their web site: solarroadways.com/

I haven't been up there for quite some time. When I was working more in the area I used to call it the quietest motorway in England as it was so peaceful. There used to be a little work but I was never held up in the slightest. Times change, I suppose, and now I would maybe not recognise it.

www.desmog.com/2021/10/20/french-oil-company-total-knew-about-global-warming-impact-in-1971-study-finds/

So probably all oil companies have done this?

I'm sure they did in exactly the same way as tobacco companies knew what tobacco did to our health.
In the same way that those invested in asbestos kept reports made as early as the 1870s documenting the health dangers of asbestos quiet.

The fact is that we cannot expect these companies to cut their own throats.
That's why we need independent studies and to listen to whistleblowers.

Exactly Cassie. They basically have gotten away with murder.

It is time to stop playing at it, but he is hardly to blame.

Cumulative bleaching undermines systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef

www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01346-4