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Listed below are comments made by piesforyou between Sunday, 10th August 2008 and Monday, 11th August 2008.

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Toothy grin? 8:05pm on 11 Aug 2008 I take it the wood was sourced from a properly managed forest and that the pig feed wasn't delivered in plastic bags...
Cheese and ale 4:17pm on 10 Aug 2008 Cutting down waste can only be a good thing. But have you considered some of the trade-offs that have occurred due to this process? For example, switching from aluminum cans to bottled beer. Which takes more fossil fuels to recycle: aluminium or glass? The council might collect the cans but personally I have to visit a bottle bank for my glass, meaning a car journey. Since this car journey takes place purely for my bottles, it increases the carbon footprint quite a lot. I don't know the answer, but have you considered it?

Or, how about visiting this farm shop? Is that much of an extra journey for you? Getting plastic-packed cheese from the supermarket has a low carbon footprint because it's transported en masse, and you would buy it with the rest of your shopping. So which is worse: the extra CO2 you put into the atmosphere by going to the farm shop, or the cheese wrapper in the landfill? Two different issues, but with the environment in mind, they should be considered.

Which is more important: the burying of waste or the impending climatic crisis which, in turn, will lead to a humanitarian crises on an unimaginable scale.

So I guess the underlying question to ask is, has your anti platic period caused an increase or decrease in your carbon footprint, or has it not impacted it at all?

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