Free bin bags. I'll have 2 a week, please. As regards "Do they get filled?" Oh yes . Why else would they dish then out? The founder of one of the companies that dish out the bags, sell the contents and give *some of* the proceeds to charity is a millionaire. He's not a mug.
Do you consider power/energy usage when selecting a new kit?
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MikeMA
pfm Member
Neither do I.
Yep, which is why I use them for bin bags. The charity link is nil, none, FA..
Arkless Electronics
Trade: Amp design and repairs.
Maybe one out of every 20 they dish out gets filled. The rest no doubt get used as bin bags etc.
The logistics of it say it cannot be any other way. How much waste clothing does the average person have around? Enough to fill a bin bag? Maybe if they've thrown nothing out for ages... after they've filled up one charity sack though it would likely take a couple of years before you were ready to throw out another bin bag full. meanwhile you've had 2 - 3 bags a week through the letterbox!
fegs
pfm Member
@Arkless Electronics totally agree regarding the volume of clothing one might throw out, can't remember the last time I threw any clothing away and when I do it's because it's f@*ked, no charity would want my cast offs 
In the grand scheme of things it's single use plastics that boils my pi55
And in answer to the OP, I don't consider energy usage when selecting new kit
In the grand scheme of things it's single use plastics that boils my pi55
And in answer to the OP, I don't consider energy usage when selecting new kit
Bas V
pfm Member
I absolutely do. There’s no need to buy the most efficient stuff around, but class A is an absolute no-go. I try to live my whole life like this: I don’t drive a fuel car anymore (put a PIH, so not fully electric yet), I eat meat only once or twice a week (so not fully veggie), I don’t buy as many clothes as I did, nothing from China, etc. I believe that if everyone would act like this, we’d get a long way to a solution for climate change…
Hazelberry
sister
No.
DimitryZ
pfm Member
cromodora
foshfishfie
I’ve got three V8s under the porch.
They are all Toyotas, so more economical.
Cereal Killer
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Surely you can't all see this as a joking matter that doesn't really require attention even from the minuscule elements on a global scale.?
Yes plastics are disgusting and is absolutely a primary concern, but our carbon indexes have many layers, even down the metals and materials being used in production including Hi-Fi.
Yes plastics are disgusting and is absolutely a primary concern, but our carbon indexes have many layers, even down the metals and materials being used in production including Hi-Fi.
It's all skirting around the real issue of over-population and breeding, breeding, breeding, breeding and more breeding. A hifi is inconsequential when humans are knocking out offspring that will consume resources for an average of 80 years for each one.
Cereal Killer
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Nothing is inconsequential, in fact everything exactly is - even down to the copper's and silicon's being used to make internal components.
Breeder? Am I wrong?
Cereal Killer
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?? Do you mean do I have kids? yes I have 1 son and 1 daughter
"Yes" would have done fine. I didn't need to know your success rate. So how many mobiles tablets, PCs, gaming machines, food, fuel, gas, electricity etc, etc will these two consume over the next 80 years or more?
More or less than an average hifi system? Just a one word answer please - more/less.
I have no intention of saving resources for somebody else's sprogs so if you want them to have the planet's resources to harvest you'll have to make your own arrangements!