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duncan webster02/12/2021 20:14:31
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I got rid of my last car when it had done somewhere north of 150,000 miles. This because of the government subsidised scrappage scheme. It went off to the crusher, and substantial amounts of energy were no-doubt used to shred it, re-melt, re-roll etc into new material from which to make a new car. There was actually very little wrong with it (needed new alternator bushes), I reckon that a lot less energy would have re-conditioned the engine (top end overhaul minimum), re-bushed all the suspension, and a reprogrammed engine management system would have got another 10 years out of it.

The mantra is Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle, but we only seem to want to do the third. Similarly wine bottles, they re-use milk bottles so why not wine? If there was a substantial tax on non standard shaped bottles they would soon be all the same. As it is they are broken up and re-melted. Wine imports from Aus to UK comes in bulk and is bottled here, so it is within our control

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