Sunday, December 25, 2011

Making "Merry" At The Cost of Mother Nature

asks: Why doesn't a single bearded "environmentalist" spend some time researching and quantifying this calamity?

Well, looks like someone did quantify some of it:

If all the discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards in the U.K. were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to a study.

1 comment:

witan said...

A former UK PM (I think it was Tony Blair) used to shave by candle-light to save electricity — he would shave with an electric razor.