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Sir, - Can someone please explain to me why we as citizens are bombarded with the need to recycle to save the earth's resources, not use the car, re-use plastic bags, which many of us have always done, turn down our heating and use energy saving light bulbs, which provide a dim light, and are generally made to feel guilty that we are destroying the planet, when manufacturers can make goods, especially white goods, which are only meant to last five years on a good day? Do they not use gas, electricity, raw materials and fuel for the lorries to transport the goods, thus burying the countryside under yet more concrete? In the last 12 months, I have had to take to the tip two phones (worth pounds50) which were only 18 months old and which I was told were not worth repairing, and now a Sony Mini HiFi (pounds150), four years old and hardly used, because the part needed is a non-repairable part. I can understand that these were not very expensive items but they were to me on a fixed income and surely they were meant to last longer.
I feel that we all have to do our best to conserve our resources but surely that means all of us, not just the general public. As we travel the country, we see more and more heaps of cars, fridges, cookers, TVs etc spoiling the countryside and obviously not being recycled. Could we please return to some sort of sanity where the manufacturers make goods to last and consumers are content to pay a bit more and keep things for longer?See the full content of this document
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Throwaway Goods Harm Environment
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