Lush create their packing peanuts in-house. It’s expanded cornstarch. You can dissolve it, compost it (or even eat it).
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So like wotsits?
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There’s a marketing opportunity there… cheesy packing peanuts.
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Here’s a mix of Finance and The Environment - do you want to buy a share in a couple of rewilding scottish estates?
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no words that I could type out without causing offence 
Even the UK steelmakers haven’t been asking for a new coal mine, especially one they can’t use the coal from anyways.
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Some Tory in the House of Lords probably stands to make several million from this which is why they approved it. That’s how this government ‘works’. There’s no practical justification any way you look at it.
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At least it shows their colours I guess. It’s nauseating listening to them pretend to care about climate change.
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This bloke clearly doesn’t understand who the customers of the coalmine will be, that ‘coal’ isn’t destined to be majority used in this country one bit.
Graham Roberts, a Conservative county and town councillor, was out buying a copy of Country Life on Thursday. He too was eagerly waiting for the news. “We need the jobs,” he said.
“The hysteria is out of proportion. The amount of pollution this would create compared with India or China is negligible. And why should we import coke and coal when we’ve got it here on our doorstep? We’re saving the country money.
It’d be highly amusing if all these other countries that use coal, turned round and said sorry we’re not buying any. Can get it cheaper elsewhere.
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Even if the steel mines could use it (which they can’t) the mines wouldn’t sell it to them for anything less than the globally fixed price. And even if for some reason they did sell it for less than the global price of that grade of coal (which they won’t), it wouldn’t actually save the country any money at all because the steelworks are privately owned by a Chinese company.
You wonder how stupid someone can possibly be.
Also I feel like I remember some sort of history with coal mines not being profitable, something about strikes… someone remind me who was at the center of closing them all down again?
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We won’t even get the tax from it…
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Not even long term jobs at this rate, if it did open, I can’t see it being long before it closes again as it’s not ‘profitable’.
There’s a few environmental groups looking at putting in an appeal which will allow things down and hopefully get it shut down.
The Marine Management Organisation haven’t been contacted about the coalmine yet. They’ll need to give approval for the owners to mine coal from under the seabed. Here’s hoping someone within that department has the balls to say, nope not happening.
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Snow day!
Didn’t know where to put it, so here will do. My dog’s first ever snow & it’s blown his mind with what it is.
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Cat used to love the snow when she was younger but now won’t go out unless a path is cleared for her 
Had to dig a path to the nearest hedge last year just so that she could go to the loo under it!
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I like the fact that the steel industry and all it’s experts are doubling down on its messaging, that it’s not a customer for this mine.
Makes the decision look even more stupid, with every passing moment that a MP /minister makes a claim that the mine is to support them.
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It’s getting a bit silly now 
I can only read the first couple of paragraphs before the paywall kicks in but that’s enough 
“ When pets can emit twice the carbon emissions of our homes and kill up to 200 million wild prey in the UK every year”
My cat wishes this were true
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And humans do far more damage than those innocent little cutie pies. I vote we get rid of those instead.
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I can’t read the rest either but there may be some serious point somewhere. There’s definitely things pet owners can do, like use more sustainable litter and food, keep dogs on leashes and cats indoors where there’s a risk to wildlife, that sort of stuff.
But making the title sound like it’s saying no one should have a pet is just clickbait.
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Curiosity got the better of me so I ran the URL through 12ft.io
They raise fair points, but they’re all things we can mitigate, and the points seem to be based on the assumption that all of us are ignorant and will ever do the worst possible thing.
Poo bags are a biggie. If you can’t home compost them, they’ll go to a landfill. And it doesn’t matter what sort of bag you have, it won’t degrade in a landfill, except for only (AFAIK) Project Harmless poop bags which I’ve shared above, but they’re a relatively new type of bag.
Pet food packaging waste, is a fair one as it can’t normally be recycled. The industry could use some innovation in that respect.
Cat litter: they pick on clumping sorts like they’re the only cat litter available. Not all litters are bad.
The meat content in foods is another target. But it’s largely a byproduct of human consumption. They try to make it look like animals consume vastly greater quantities of meat than humans by using percentages, which completely omits the fact their diets are usually smaller, so a larger percentage of meat doesn’t necessarily mean more meat than humans consume.
The overall message: the author wants pets to cease to exist because someone’s cat hunted a wild frog that made its home in their garden and they didn’t like it.
Anyway, here’s a rebuttal in defence of cat kind everywhere.
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It’s not a paywall - just select the “I’ll try later” button.
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