tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post5231985592985529726..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Wood You Believe ItDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36017906416953992092009-09-15T16:47:09.039+01:002009-09-15T16:47:09.039+01:00Freecycle or rfecycle what you can man.Freecycle or rfecycle what you can man.Green Building Materialshttp://www.ibuildingsupplies.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-16804668427402678612009-08-02T23:55:00.353+01:002009-08-02T23:55:00.353+01:00DP, I salute for actually attempting to hand the s...DP, I salute for actually attempting to hand the stuff back for free, despite you/we all knew what would happen.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-27419976957667707432009-08-02T14:34:35.444+01:002009-08-02T14:34:35.444+01:00Here’s another example.
I am a self-employed copyw...Here’s another example.<br />I am a self-employed copywriter in the Netherlands. One of my clients is a large building society. I get my writing assignments from their PR dept. They brief me via phone or email, I write the piece, email it to them, and finally I send my invoice for the hours I worked on it. <br /><br />That is, it *used* to work this way. But recently, they changed their ‘system’. Since then the procedure is as follows:<br />(1) They brief me.<br />(2) I have to email them a quote for the costs. <br />(3) They print out an order confirmation, put it in an envelope and snailmail it to me.<br />(4) I write the article, etc.<br /><br />And lately, they’ve started to send their confirmations in duplicate, requesting me to sign one copy and snailmail it back to them. I get two or three writing jobs a week from them, so on a yearly basis that’s an awful lot of ‘dead tree’ being sent to and fro.<br /><br />Just like the store in DP’s blogpost, this building society prides itself on its ‘green’ image. They only use FSC wood for their building projects, all correspondence and publications are printed on recycled paper, etc. Of course, I have mentioned to them that this paper-consuming new ‘system’ of theirs is rather eco-unfriendly. They agreed, but said nothing could be done about it.Abonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-56136385080408923652009-08-02T05:46:00.528+01:002009-08-02T05:46:00.528+01:00As Henry North London suggests, give Freecycle a g...As Henry North London suggests, give Freecycle a go for this sort of thing. It's fairly well used here in Oz though I've noticed some people just pile things up on the footpath outside the door with a sign on the top telling people to help themselves to whatever they like. Mind you, in Britain some local council prick will probably come along and do you for littering or unlicensed waste disposal or some other bollocks.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-33737625900253332262009-08-01T23:37:55.211+01:002009-08-01T23:37:55.211+01:00DP,
Just a thought but would not the cost of kitc...DP,<br /><br />Just a thought but would not the cost of kitchen units be reduced if a 'recycling' programme such as you suggest existed?<br /><br />Also if you want stories, such as TFE's, no doubt you read 'Defence of the Realm' by Richard North?<br /><br />I suspect more is spent on the admin - staff, paper, monitoring etc etc - of all 'environment' programmes than is actually saved!Witterings from Witneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349563961787006775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-67791849276298204642009-08-01T23:10:04.525+01:002009-08-01T23:10:04.525+01:00Jeez, TFE! Now if I had a story like that to tell,...Jeez, TFE! Now if I had a story like that to tell, it would have made for a half-interesting blog post. ;-)<br /><br />I've no doubt not a lot has changed since your tale. Pissing money up the wall has always been dramatically better served by the public sector (still shuddering at the waste I witnessed at a local council for 4 years in the 80s).Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-73088767122890818612009-08-01T23:06:09.920+01:002009-08-01T23:06:09.920+01:00Give them away on freecycle....
www.freecycle.org...Give them away on freecycle....<br /><br />www.freecycle.orgHenry North London 2.0https://www.blogger.com/profile/14748991488145468593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-11676951062218556352009-08-01T21:00:43.101+01:002009-08-01T21:00:43.101+01:00Dick,
You should work for the Ministry of defence...Dick,<br /><br />You should work for the Ministry of defence to see real waste. During the last Gulf war I asked for 32 NBCD prefilter foam inlet protectors. Approximate cost about £1 each. All to difficult, they sent me 32 complete prefilters at an aproximate cost of £10,000 per unit. When I asked where I should return the bits I wasn't going to use, I was told to throw them in a skip. Needless to say, I didn't. I asked all the ship's around if they needed any. They went like hot cakes.The Filthy Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584236558282159183noreply@blogger.com