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Fast Food... Slow to React

It was early morning Monday 6th August – the last day for Footprint Friends at the World Scout Jamboree. [:'(]

Tired, grubby and buzzing at the prospect of another day at the Jambo, the Footprint Friends team decided to start the day with some fast food breakfast (our camp milk had gone smelly!)

Standing in the line, with our painters overalls and cool stickers we all made a couple of observations:

Firstly, we were really enjoying the ‘get away from it all’ feeling the Jamboree had given us and even though we were oddly dressed, you could see in our faces that we were having an awesome time being  away from an office environment. Secondly, as we went to leave, our fast food waste all went into one bin – and that was bits of paper, pancake, card and T bags etc.

Disposing of rubbish in this way is so far removed from the ‘best practice’ we are all being told to abide by at home. It made us think Idea… Just imagine how much waste is produced and how much potential is missed to re-cycle? What sort of message does this send out?

Back at base, this topic came up and so we thought we’d get you guys to have a think about it too. Let us know what you think – we’ll forward your views to the main offenders. Maybe we can make enough noise to get this looked into and changed.  Happy Polling


Posted Aug 17 2007, 05:18 PM by Swampy
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salter573 wrote re: Fast Food... Slow to React
on 08-18-2007 2:20 PM

I think the Jamboree tried a little bit to get people to sort thier rubbish into the correct bins like paper, cans, food waste etc, but i feel schools aren't doing enough to recycle everything they can. Our school sometimes has the heating on in the summer! And then we have to open the windows as it gets to hot in a crowded classroom, and so that wastes heat, money and doesn't help the environment. We do have green boxes but paper still gets wasted when people don't use them. I think more places should have the facillities to recycle like recycling boxes and even compost bins. Also if they controlled when thier heating came on and turned off the lights in rooms which aren't being used, then they'd be doing thier bit for the environment x

salter573 wrote re: Fast Food... Slow to React
on 08-19-2007 3:21 PM

Heya - i think fast food places should have more recycling bins, because most of the food comes in packaging, that can be recycled, so they should provide the facillities, to recycle thier waste.

Robbo wrote re: Fast Food... Slow to React
on 08-20-2007 1:20 PM

Interesting how asking one question like "what are fast food outlets doing about recycling" can open the door to what about, offices, factories, stores, supermarkets restuarants are all these places doing their bit to help.We all need to wake up to the situation and get educated how easy it is to recycle if you just think about it.

kitty wrote re: Fast Food... Slow to React
on 09-28-2007 5:27 PM

Can more people vote in the poll please - we need to send a serious message - it's up to us to make a difference

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