[Music] The Earthshot Prize

Lower West Stander said:

Anyone else watching this?

I sat down to this hoping to learn about some of the fantastic things being done to save the planet. Instead, we’ve been subjected Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and KSI signing a bunch of pointless songs. Plus celebrities telling us how terrible things are.

Why couldn’t they give some more detailed films and appraisals of the great work being done? I reckon there has been about 5 minutes of what really matters so far….

Rather than some glitzy over the top ceremony, surely it would’ve been better for a low key presentation which maximises the contribution of the finalists.

Rant over….


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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

I hate to say this but I still suspect most of our household recycling is going into land fill. I mean, how do they separate all that shit out? It must cost a fortune.

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Westdene Seagull said:

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I sat on a residents panel to discuss with City Clean what we wanted from the service. As part of that I got to tour the recycling plant at Hollingdean. A caveat here that this is only for B&H, I have no idea what Faversham do !

The whole process is very clever. The glass is the easy bit as it's kept separate here. It's unloaded into a hopper and goes down a conveyor belt where 'pickers' take out any thing that isn't glass. It's then loaded onto a huge truck to take to Battersea for recycling.

The other materials, which are mixed, involves a more tricky operation. First it's put into a hopper and then down a conveyor belt. Pickers then remove anything that isn't recyclable ( some people just chuck any old rubbish in - wrong, wrong, wrong ). Then it passes under a huge magnet that removes anything metal - tins etc. This metal is then crushed and baled and sent to recycling. Then comes the paper recovery. It goes into a huge hamster type wheel and the technology removes it - they did tell us how it works but I can't remember. The paper is then compacted and put into bales and once again sent for recycling. That leaves the plastic which is also crushed and sent for recycling. Anything they pick out as erroneous is sent to Newhaven for burning.

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CheeseRolls said:

Second bit of pointless virtue signalling by our first family of scroungers in recent weeks.

Prince I am in my seventies and have never wiped my own arse Charles has converted his Aston Martin to run on wine wastage (thanks that more than compensates for all those private jet journeys) and now his slacked jawed son grabs a spot of self publicity courtesy of my licence fee.

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Audax said:

Agree that Charles' thing with his car is probably nothing more than virtue signalling (unless he's personally funded the R&D to make it happen), although he has been involved in green initiatives for a long time, but in William's case I'm as confident as I can be that he's serious about fixing the environment. There's a lot of time, effort, and resource gone into the Earthshot prize. Just dismissing it out of hand like this is wrong. He's worked with Attenborough on it for a few years now, and they've got significant backing from green organisations and philanthropic funds to help make it happen.

It may or may not have happened without William being involved, but fact is he is involved and his involvement so far has been more than just putting his name and royal status behind it at the last minute: he's a founder and driving force behind getting it running and making sure it's funded.

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Lower West Stander said:

Anyone else watching this?

I sat down to this hoping to learn about some of the fantastic things being done to save the planet. Instead, we’ve been subjected Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and KSI signing a bunch of pointless songs. Plus celebrities telling us how terrible things are.

Why couldn’t they give some more detailed films and appraisals of the great work being done? I reckon there has been about 5 minutes of what really matters so far….

Rather than some glitzy over the top ceremony, surely it would’ve been better for a low key presentation which maximises the contribution of the finalists.

Rant over….


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CheeseRolls said:

Second bit of pointless virtue signalling by our first family of scroungers in recent weeks.

Prince I am in my seventies and have never wiped my own arse Charles has converted his Aston Martin to run on wine wastage (thanks that more than compensates for all those private jet journeys) and now his slacked jawed son grabs a spot of self publicity courtesy of my licence fee.

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Kalimantan Gull said:

Prinve Charles is arguably the greatest philanthropist the world has ever seen. He has mobilised huge amounts of funding for environmental causes and other worthy projects, and his sons have continued in that vein. Yes, they use their position to do so, but they are using it the right way. Case in point, he brokered the $1 billion pact between Norway and Indonesia to reduce deforestation in Indonesia, which resulted in a moratorium on clearing of primary rainforest and peatlands.

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Westdene Seagull said:

*** Boring answer coming up ***

I sat on a residents panel to discuss with City Clean what we wanted from the service. As part of that I got to tour the recycling plant at Hollingdean. A caveat here that this is only for B&H, I have no idea what Faversham do !

The whole process is very clever. The glass is the easy bit as it's kept separate here. It's unloaded into a hopper and goes down a conveyor belt where 'pickers' take out any thing that isn't glass. It's then loaded onto a huge truck to take to Battersea for recycling.

The other materials, which are mixed, involves a more tricky operation. First it's put into a hopper and then down a conveyor belt. Pickers then remove anything that isn't recyclable ( some people just chuck any old rubbish in - wrong, wrong, wrong ). Then it passes under a huge magnet that removes anything metal - tins etc. This metal is then crushed and baled and sent to recycling. Then comes the paper recovery. It goes into a huge hamster type wheel and the technology removes it - they did tell us how it works but I can't remember. The paper is then compacted and put into bales and once again sent for recycling. That leaves the plastic which is also crushed and sent for recycling. Anything they pick out as erroneous is sent to Newhaven for burning.

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CheeseRolls said:

This one? https://redd-monitor.org/2021/09/13/indonesia-scraps-us1-billion-redd-deal-with-norway/ or another one?

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Kalimantan Gull said:

Prinve Charles is arguably the greatest philanthropist the world has ever seen. He has mobilised huge amounts of funding for environmental causes and other worthy projects, and his sons have continued in that vein. Yes, they use their position to do so, but they are using it the right way. Case in point, he brokered the $1 billion pact between Norway and Indonesia to reduce deforestation in Indonesia, which resulted in a moratorium on clearing of primary rainforest and peatlands.

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