Nominate your most environmentally unfriendly product here!

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Very badly phrased but yKWIM

Back in a mo with mine ...

I lose my gas card often, so s a result cant put the heating on............does that count?

lol, that would be very environmentally friendly then, not using non-renewable fuels

OK, my nomination would be those throwaway toilet brushes, but I can't find a pic online - seen them advertised on the tv, you know the ones ...

yes, throwaway toilet brushes, and disposable cleaning wipes containing bleach

oh, read thread title wrong, unfriendly, not friendly, erm.....that has to be my unbreakable addition to using a tumble dryer, about 15 loads a week

me too TE

And I never wash at 30 degrees.

i think anything disposable is pretty bad!

be it disposable loo brushes
wipes for almost anything (whats wrong with a CLOTH where you squirt the stuff on and then use it again?)

disposabel nappies really cant be any good, nor can pads and tampons... try mooncups much better!

Well I agree nannyL, but I think that some disposable items have some use in the modern world - however there are reusable alternatives to them all!

The bleach thing is a bit of a red herring in a way - bleach is actually less harmful to the environment than other chemicals as it breaks down to water. So dh tells me - I will try and find some info to back that up now ... !

"Household use of bleach does not contaminate groundwater. Sodium hypochlorite is very reactive and, as a result, degrades rapidly and completely. It works promptly against stains and dirt and quickly breaks down primarily into salt and water. Household water is then directed to a septic tank, or sewage treatment plant."

From here

that's really interesting, thanks we have a septic tank and I always feel terribly guilty using anything with bleach in. sounds like I don't need to

bleach kills fish

I vote bleach

oh and this

from here

"Bleach contains chlorine, element number 17 on that periodic chart... All told, it is a component in about 15,000 products that have combined estimated annual sales of $71 billion. In spite of its prevalence, there is a movement to ban chlorine because it is suspected of causing a number of environmental problems, including ozone depletion. It is also thought to pose health threats to humans and wildlife, ranging from cancers to endocrine disruption. "

Outdoor heaters! Crazy. It'll be outdoor air conditioning next

those vile plug in air 'fresheners' - use electricity and pollute your house with nasty artifical smells...hate them

Do you know that the man who first put lead in petrol also designed CFCs?

Possibly the most environmentally distructive person on the planet!

Leaf blowers. What the hell are they all about?

Cars

Traditional light bulbs

Radiant heaters

Plug in mosquito killers (is there a better alternative???)

Anything made in China...

has to be nappies for me -though also anything airfreighted halfway round the world as well.

has to be nappies for me -though also anything airfreighted halfway round the world as well.

OUTDOOR heaters for patios - WTF?

plastic bags, hate them with a passion especially bin bags, you open them, then put them straight in the bin then they go directly to landfil.

Those horrid plastic things that hold four cans of things together. Non bio-degradable, and hedgehogs get stuck in them (I once spent an interesting hour trying to liberate a recalcitrant hedgehog from one)

plug in air fresheners
cillit bang
oven cleaner
chemical fertilisers

plus the ones already mentioned