Free Toxic Waste at Euston September 15, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Environment , trackbackIt’s amazing how many freebies you can pick up if you travel through two London mainline stations each morning, and are so inclined. In the last few weeks, I’ve been given Coke Zero (diet coke for boys, and just as full of carcinogens), a travelcard holder with a picture from the new musical Wicked, a free umbrella with a paper and a bottle of some sort of fruity water stuff that was actually quite nice. If the giveaway looks useful or interesting, I’ll take it, but don’t have time to look too closely in the rush of the commuter crowd. This morning, I accidently acquired a couple of potentially explosive bottles of noxious chemicals, courtesy of Unilever.
They’re Sure spray on deoderant. Does anyone still use sprayon? Would you really want to use something that said ‘Extremely Flammable’, ‘No smoking during or shortly after use’, ‘Do not spray near eyes or face’. Do underarms count as ‘near eyes or face’. Why take the risk, and the environmental harm, when rollons exist?
So now I have two little bottles of toxic waste. I’m tempted to send them back to Unilever, with an invoice for the carbon offsets.
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It certainly makes you wonder just how many of these freebies are disposed of in the course of a day.
Anyway, you just hit the right button with me. I use Sure Spray but will buy roll-on when I go to town later. No doubt there’s something in that that’s bad for the environment, too, though.