Arsenic !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arborist Sites]

I agree, everylittle helps but there are bigger issues.

 

Try taking your "crusade" to the Government then, they send billions of tons of OUR waste every year to the far east to be "Disposed" of by burning etc...........how very eco friendly. What about all the people that still burn coal? like me, coal is no better than burning a bit of treated wood( i dont as i dont get any).

 

 

What your saying then is - If everyone else is doing it, its ok for me as well.

 

Thats a very slippery slope to get on IMO.....

[Ian C]

What your saying then is - If everyone else is doing it, its ok for me as well.

 

Thats a very slippery slope to get on IMO.....

 

 

Your opinion is just that

Why a slippery slope? you said that not me. Don't tell me you NEVER do anything wrong, of have never done anything wrong eco wise! I was pointing out facts that you seem to overlook when "Preaching" how good you/we all are!

[County4x4]

I agree, everylittle helps but there are bigger issues.

 

Try taking your "crusade" to the Government then, they send billions of tons of OUR waste every year to the far east to be "Disposed" of by burning etc...........how very eco friendly. What about all the people that still burn coal? like me, coal is no better than burning a bit of treated wood( i dont as i dont get any).

 

What sort of waste are you talking about mate? I ran a commercial recycling plant for a while, and whilst some of our stuff was exported, it certainly wasn't going to be burned - just going to countries that had a much better idea of how to recycle materials into useful products instead of chucking it in a hole in the ground and looking the other way. We often found that there simply weren't the businesses based in the UK who could take the stuff and do something with it, with a few exceptions like paper and metals, which were processed no more than five miles from where we produced them. Modern industrial incinerators can do a good job of producing energy from non-recyclable waste and emissions are low thanks to exhaust scrubbers and so on, but no-one here wants one in their neighbourhood do they?

 

I'm not about to hold my hand up and say I've never done anything that's had a negative impact on the environment - I don't think any of us could do that. But I don't think the "other people do it so why shouldn't I?" argument holds much water either. I try to be a good neighbour, and I wouldn't want to be burning mdf or plywood on my fire for the smoke to be blowing round their houses and their kids. I'm well aware that my little contribution is not going to make a great deal of difference on it's own, but if none of us burned the stuff, surely it would help.

 

The statement that "the planet is screwed so why bother about it" says a lot about modern attitudes I reckon. Homer Simpson would be proud.....

 

Andy