First principle of recycling. If we look at it really hard. The problem will GO AWAY!

Have you ever wondered what the manufacturers of plastic bottles, cans and all that stuff we buy when we’re thirsty, or think we’re thirsty, or may have a panic attack in the event of being thirsty think of recycling? Well, the fact is not a lot. But they’re determined not to have a recycling deposit scheme. That would be the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. And corporates would have to think next time they’re having a monday morning engine room meeting. Public departments would have to re- calibrate befoe their facilities management meetings. Blue collar workers, (if there any left) would have to prioritise prior their workplace health and safety regime. And every team manager co-ordination meeting, and senior tier secreatries to politicians, and other worthy folk would have to adjust to their utterances across the board table not being ordained by the ubiquitous plastic bottle of H20. 

As the pcbycp initiative states, H20 in plastic has to go. 

But no one is listening. 

Shark Attacks reduced and SAFETY increased by plastic bottles on beaches.

On the fun run all the bottles were in happy plastic, showing the corporate responsibility for re- hydration. And now China doesnt want to take our plastic any more we’re in real trouble. Courageously super-markets have stopped giving away plastic bags, but this is a bridge too far, on a beach somewhere, to ever ever think of changing corporate behaviour on plastic bottles. For as Lord Rupert of Murdoch said; “he or she who replaces the throw-away society with something eternal and long term shall be accursed”. 

Seems Kevin Rudd went that way when he talked of the mining tax, and it’s good to know that the once in a generation boom from the mining  went into the pockets of a few. Some of them might even set up philanthropic recycling centres. We at pcbycp are working on the logo at the moment, 

A Clean beach and bottles recycled into Commonwealth Games mascot.

We thougt an Echidna or Koala would be good. Not quite as naff as the one used or the Commonwealth Games, but cute and cuddly. We’re hoping that Twiggy and Gina would stump up the cash for an old fashioned bottle drive. But so far they haven’t answered our calls. Clive did, but he wanted a downpayment or the facility, free advertising rights, and an amnesty from any criminal prosecution, and we just couldnt afford it. 

No plastic bottles were harmed in the production of this photograph.

So stumped, we asked Coca Cola the biggest producer of non-recyclable bottles and cans and they sent us a disclaimer. The disclaimer went words to the effect: “We care about nurturing the planet and all its eco systems, but whilst people insist on buying our product and throw the receptacles all over the place, we are deeply perplexed and confused, and will mention it at the next annual board meeting”. We think that’s a good effort. One can’t go too hard on the big end of town cos they employ hordes of people on workplace agreement contracts so that they may be down-trodden, but we thought we’d give it a go. 

We approached the banks who give the money to produce the plastic and they said it was non-core. 

We asked them what non-core was and they stated: “anything that doesn’t give us a shorrt term buck”.

So we’re doing our own bit. We have a recycling bin. And once a week we burn the lot.

That creates a lot of CO2. 

But we’re happy.

Problem solved.