Marks and Spencer hopes to cut plastic bag use with 5p levy

I wonder if any of the local supermarket chains such as PAVI, Smart, Scotts, Lidl etc have considered such a move to cut at our bad habit of filling our car booths full of goods in plastic bags. Personally, I doubt it. I still remember the outrage when the ecotax was announced. I am not aware of any figures that show wheter such a tax has managed to reduce the consumption of certain products, apart from filling the public coffers.

Marks & Spencer will charge 5p for each bag and the proceeds will go to charity. In Britain, 13billion bags are distributed each year, each of which can take up to 1000 years to decay. Plus they are made from the black gold called oil.

Can anyone tell some executive at these chains that reducing the distribution of plastic bags helps their bottom line and the environment? At least, they can start a trail at one of their many outlets and gauge customer feedback.

Source: The Guardian

Awesome football video

This video is so cool, I had to put in on this blog (apart from the fact that I have not blogged much lately). This video has to do with the EA Sport Fifa Street 3. Great promo video of course, and cool skills, especially the shot over the head! Enjoy

This is really pure genius - a car that runs on air!

Can you imagine this? A car that runs on compressed air! I could not believe this until I saw this video. That car and future off shoots can do wonders for the environment by reducing air pollution and CO2 emissions.

I wish all the best of luck to the two engineers on succeeded in the their project.

Also, the following comment caught my eye on youtube.com:

beautiful this cars will stop the terrorism we are sponsoring by buying oil from arabs

Climate change progress and the US

Is this deja vu or history repetition?

The conference (in Hawaii) ended with the U.S. agreeing to join nearly 190 countries to craft a blueprint for fighting climate change by 2009. But that only happened after participants loudly booed repeated U.S. objections to the document.

Source: CNN

Europe's map according to the Maltese

I could not let this go unnoticed...so good. The words are in Maltese of course!