Edenbee: Use my purchasing power to encourage manufacturers to recycle

Use my purchasing power to encourage manufacturers to recycle

By buying products from companies that use recycled packaging you can encourage others to do the same. You have the power to make manufacturers bend to your will, use it wisely

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by Tigerlight about 1 month ago

As far as I know, you are entitled to leave excess packaging at the till when you take food home. (Open to correction...but think this is the case). I will try this and let you know how I get on.
by QUE-VA 3 months ago

when I do shop at a supermarket I try to go at a quiet time (less Q), I constantly ask for things they don't have (what a busy body am am) such as the organic ketchup Eco cleaning products and so on..then after I pay(using my club card so they see what I spend my hard earned dosh on...no not just organic wine but all the other organic and Eco products...they must be monitoring sales as they have started stocking a lot more choice in organic fair trade and ethical(hmmmm still not enough)products), I then remove as much packaging as I can and leave it there in the super market(they love me I know)...it's my statement on the overuse of packaging!....hardly an earth warrior but hey one step on the way...I have been delighted to discover www.ballybrado.com organic food delivery..lots of locally sourced in season fruit and veg and a wide variety of other foods delivered right to the door (no Q)perfect!
by abbyamadan 3 months ago

Even if you know full well that a shop does not stock say recycled paper, it is still worth asking for it (preferably the manager)otherwise they will never know that they lost a sale because of not stocking recycled products, if enough people ask they will stock it, but if you just leave in a private huff, they will never know!

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Asked by neilbee 4 months ago
1. neilbee
  I made a mess of asking my first question on Edenbee, so here it is again.
  We are being warned of rising sea levels with global warming. With billions of tons of oil being taken from the seabed around the world doesn't water get sucked back into the place the oil was and shouldn't this counteract some of the melting ice? Or is all this oil a drop in the ocean?
2. Brutus
  Current worldwide consumption of oil is approx. 80 million barrels/day or 29 billion barrels/year. There's 159 litres of oil in a barrel, so that's a yearly total of about 4.6 trillion litres = 4.6 cubic kilometers. However, the volume of the world's oceans is 1.37 billion sq km and it's surface area is 361 million sq km, giving an average depth of 3.8km. So, even if we were to assume all the volume vacated by oil extracted was filled by sea water, this would consume 0.000000336% of ocean water, leading to a drop in average depth of 0.0128mm. So, even if there was enough oil to keep extracting at current rates for the next 88 years, it would only lead to a 1mm drop in average sea levels. So, to answer your question, yes, it is a drop in the ocean and will not counter the rise in water levels caused by the polar ice caps melting due to global warming - which could be several metres in that period.