27 Dec
2006
27 Dec
'06
4:09 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
The whole 'emissions at point of manufacture and
disposal' does get
conveniently forgotten by the majority of people, though. I think
there's what, nine years of landfill left in the UK - after which
existing sites will be full and the law prohibits opening of any new
ones. Yet there's virtually nobody either trying to reuse the technology
that we already have or making new technology that's long-lived and
easily repairable.
Well yes. And let's not forget that taken over the entire item
lifetime, a 3.5 litre Rangerover will be around 10 times cleaner than a
Prius. Why? Because it has a design life of around 20 years rather
than 5 years, and hasn't got so much nasty plastic and batteries and the
like to be manufactured and disposed of.
Gordon