Comments on: How green is your design? http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/how-green-is-your-design/ Inside the minds of the designers at Deckchair Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Paul Enderson http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/how-green-is-your-design/#comment-507 Paul Enderson Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:06:00 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/how-green-is-your-design/#comment-507 Ah yes... Bratz sleepover dolls. We had a couple of those last Christmas - I'm sure there must've been about 200 cable-ties holding the 1-inch toy in place! I don't recall the toys I got as a kid didn't come in that sort of packaging!?! Ah yes… Bratz sleepover dolls. We had a couple of those last Christmas - I’m sure there must’ve been about 200 cable-ties holding the 1-inch toy in place!

I don’t recall the toys I got as a kid didn’t come in that sort of packaging!?!

]]> By: toni http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/how-green-is-your-design/#comment-499 toni Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:58:10 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/how-green-is-your-design/#comment-499 Hi Paul Please don't get me started on the childrens toys. My eldest just had her 4th Birthday and one of her little friends gave her a bratz sleepover doll. I hate the things anyway but as you say it took us about half an hour to get through all the wire etc and then she played with it for about 2 seconds! All the pointless little plastic pieces in the set have already fallen down between the floor boards or been eaten by my 18 month old. :) Perhaps this is a whole other blog? Toni Hi Paul
Please don’t get me started on the childrens toys. My eldest just had her 4th Birthday and one of her little friends gave her a bratz sleepover doll. I hate the things anyway but as you say it took us about half an hour to get through all the wire etc and then she played with it for about 2 seconds! All the pointless little plastic pieces in the set have already fallen down between the floor boards or been eaten by my 18 month old. :) Perhaps this is a whole other blog?
Toni

]]> By: Paul Enderson http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/how-green-is-your-design/#comment-497 Paul Enderson Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:32:59 +0000 http://www.deckchair.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/how-green-is-your-design/#comment-497 You're bang on with your comments on supermarket packaging - the cucumber's a great example, although the real culprits are the ready meals, with their multiple layers of non-degradable plastic and thick non-recycled cardboard boxes! Another area where this is an issue is children's toys. We bought a Barbie Pegasus for our oldest for her Birthday in July, and removing it from the packaging generated plastic bands, hundreds of cable ties, and things that needed wire cutters (!) to remove! You’re bang on with your comments on supermarket packaging - the cucumber’s a great example, although the real culprits are the ready meals, with their multiple layers of non-degradable plastic and thick non-recycled cardboard boxes!

Another area where this is an issue is children’s toys. We bought a Barbie Pegasus for our oldest for her Birthday in July, and removing it from the packaging generated plastic bands, hundreds of cable ties, and things that needed wire cutters (!) to remove!

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