Nominate your most environmentally unfriendly product here!

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Very badly phrased but yKWIM

Back in a mo with mine ...

disposable stuff, yes. but I can understand why people use disp nappies.

but how about petrol 4x4s?
and tumble driers?
and, not forgetting scrapple macs, which use all manner of chemicals not found in PCs.

built in obsolescence in products.
Phone chargers that only work with THAT EXACT phone not even others of the same make.
Oh god, I can't stop now.

non-refillable things like liquid soap dispensers. In France, you can buy refill bags of soap for them. The same wretched manufacturers make the stuff, so why can't they sell it here, too????

cheap air travel

Anything 'disposable'. The landfill issues are so well known now, it just infuriates me that companies are allowed to make products that just add to the problem, & that are totaly unecessary.eg disposable bibs, disposable changing mats, and don't get me started on disposable nappies & as for baby wipes AHHHHH!!!!!!!(oh & I now see you can get disposable sleep shorts for children. The world has no hope with companies like these.
Oh and things made by, is it JML, you see them in catalogues. Stupid things that are just such a waste of everything. There was a plastic mat that you put on your dash board on the car so that your keys didn't slip off!!!!!!!!Why oh why. Or a plastic staker thing so you can arrange your cans on your kitchen shelves!!!!
(slowly gets off soap box & walks away muttering under breath)

yup air travel has to be the worst.
But in terms of products - could be HUGE list, but my pet hate is patio heaterts too. I think they're ugly as well as env un-friendly & encourage smokers to sit outsite of pubs which is obviously a bad thing
Yeah leaf blowers -do they actually do anything??

In terms of utter uselessness, my vote goes to the Wet Wipe Warmer (for disposable, chemical-filled wet-wipes, of course).

Nappy sacks. plastic, scented, and utterly unnecessesary.

Patio heaters would be on my list too.

at least with air travel, environmentally bad as it is, you end up somewhere else. You can see the appeal. even if you aren't doing it yourself. But Wet wipe warmers and Patio heaters?

NightyNight: agree about electric fly killers. Would also add the chemical sort. We used to use the sticky paper but its a bit gross. We've now got a pitcher plant to eat them. we also advocate safe housing for spiders! - means you don't have to dust as well!

I hate disposable wipes.
Plastic packaging that can't (won't) be recycled.
and kitchen roll!
And Naff kids toys that use loads of batteries and break really easily.

only small beer, as it were, but disposable contact lenses

why???

oh no no, you're not binning disposable contact lenses! (not the monthly ones anyway, you can bin the daily ones if you like). In my (admittedly brief) communist phase, I decided that I could live without any personal possessions with the sole exception of my contact lenses. I won't wear glasses even for the good of the impoversished masses.

Another nomination for patio heaters here - disgusting things!

oh hooray someone mentioned wet wipe warmers!!! Thought of that in the middle of the night

What about those disposable duster/polishing cloths? Use them once then bin 'em. What's wrong with washing a duster?

fennel, i wear gas permeable lenses,they last for ages

While I totally agree Patio heaters are too carbon extravagant, and we got rid of ours a couple of years ago, I miss it a lot. Sitting outside, after dark, when it wasnt really warm enough without a PH, with DH, while the kids were in bed were our happiest times. Now we try putting a jumper on, then end up coming in, because its too cold. I hate being indoors, and end up doing yet more chores, so a potential little romantic interlude is lost.

wet wipe warmers???

actually, in reality the most environmentally unfriendly product is the lear jet. or the private helicopter?

SP, I'd planned to buy a Learjet with the windfall I'll make from the sale of my parents' house when they pop their clogs. Do you think I should reconsider? Although after the government have had their share there'll probably only be enough for a Twin Otter, bah.

babybells.

ok, maybe not the worst, but they make me so cross with all their packaging in the supermarket. I see them and I pick them up and I want to shout at someone remoetly responsible WHY DO THEY NEED SO MUCH FUCKING PACKAGING WHY WHY WHY
but there is only the poor sainsbury's man who already has me marked as an utter lunatic who saves up every poo and wee her children ever need for when she is half way round supermarket with full up trolley.

In the US you can now get a patio air conditioner to pair with the patio heater.

A lot of the US is simply unfit for human habitation.

I think I saw what must have been the most environmentally unfriendly - not to mention gross - vehicle last week.

A streeeetch Hummer.

Couldn't believe my eyes.

I need my daily disposable contacts, my eyes build up too much protein to make the semi-permanent ones worthwhile and they're tiny, they can't do that much harm and they make me so HAPPY!

How about unfriendly products: crap cheap toys and sooooo much plastic packaging? Cheap crappy clothes from Bangledesh, lots of plastic packaging covering fruit and veg that's been flown across the world when it grows down the road? And then tasts like shite????? ARRRGGHHH!!! and try finding the local ones??? no, they're in f'ing Germany or somewhere....

out local somerfield has a chiller filled with cold drinks directly underneath a hot air vent. it's not rocket science, is it?

oh, and health and safety legislation. can't find a charity shop that will take my finished-with baby goods (high chairs etc), due to "health and safety". so unless i find a taker on freecycle, they'll end up in landfill. that's shocking.

Can I nominate DT2? I've never had a child waste so much toilet paper in my life!