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As I write, there are five red rubber bands discarded by our postman lying on the pavement outside our house. At some point, I will pick them up and add them to my growing collection of Royal Mail rubber bands. It is one of the small parts I play in recycling!
Why am I bothering to tell you about the rubber bands outside my house? It is because, under a Freedom of Information Act request by a Mr. Woods of Bristol, Royal Mail have admitted that they use 871 million rubber bands every year and that this total rises by around 50 million a year.
Amongst the tosh put out by their spokesman, Royal Mail state, ‘Unfortunately, given the quantity that we use, it is inevitable that some rubber bands will be dropped by mistake.’ Yeah, right!
Obviously trained by a PR company, the spokesman then added that Royal Mail’s rubber bands were ‘more biodegradable’ than ordinary brown ones. Interesting! How biodegradable is an ordinary brown one and how much more biodegradable are the Royal Mail red ones?
In any event, wouldn’t thousands of pounds, and much pointless litter, be saved if the lazy postmen just recycled the rubber bands they took out?
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As I write, there are five red rubber bands discarded by our postman lying on the pavement outside our house. At some point, I will pick them up and add them to my growing collection of Royal Mail rubber bands. It is one of the small parts I play in recycling!
Why am I bothering to tell you about the rubber bands outside my house? It is because, under a Freedom of Information Act request by a Mr. Woods of Bristol, Royal Mail have admitted that they use 871 million rubber bands every year and that this total rises by around 50 million a year.
Amongst the tosh put out by their spokesman, Royal Mail state, ‘Unfortunately, given the quantity that we use, it is inevitable that some rubber bands will be dropped by mistake.’ Yeah, right!
Obviously trained by a PR company, the spokesman then added that Royal Mail’s rubber bands were ‘more biodegradable’ than ordinary brown ones. Interesting! How biodegradable is an ordinary brown one and how much more biodegradable are the Royal Mail red ones?
In any event, wouldn’t thousands of pounds, and much pointless litter, be saved if the lazy postmen just recycled the rubber bands they took out?
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