Tag: Rubbish

Free Download Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVBMJH2T | 2024 | 11 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 339 MB
Author: Patrick Grant
Narrator: Patrick Grant
We used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had were important to us. We’d cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for millions of skilled people locally. Today the average person has nearly five times as many clothes as they did just 50 years ago. Last year, 100 billion garments were produced worldwide, most made from oil, 30% of which were not even sold, and the equivalent of one bin lorry full of clothing is dumped in landfill or burned every single second. Our wardrobes are full to bursting with clothes we never wear so why do we keep buying more?

Free Download Plastics: Just a Load of Rubbish? (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C11GTG6X | 2023 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Alicia Chrysostomou
Narrator: Jennifer Ness
A decade to save the planet. That’s the current call to arms. Targets are set, governments vow to do their bit and on a societal level we are encouraged to do ours by choosing to forego all things plastic. The question is whether this is the right decision or are we inadvertently at risk of doing more harm than good? Are there other factors in play needing equal consideration? The book will follow the story of plastic, and to an extent rubber (known collectively as polymers), and all with an eye to the overarching theme of the environment. It will ask some challenging questions but also sets out to inform. It begins by building a picture. Just what exactly is a plastic, how did it gain such a dominant role in our lives? Are recent denouncements fully justified? By better understanding plastics, a clearer opinion can be formed of their usefulness and their potential to alleviate serious environmental concerns.