We import 30 kilo's of Chinese plastic per child per year.

[Callisto]

The story is here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/24/ntoys124.xml.

I find this sooo depressing, not only is it fuelling China's economic supremacy and therefore exacerbating the human rights and environmental issues associated with it, it is also contributing to our own environmental problems and the continued demise of our own manufacturing base.

I know that no one really cares, I just wanted to point it out (yet again).

Also, my dd (2.6) doesn't own in total 30 kilos of plastic toys and presumably I'm not the only mother in Britain who doesn't buy every piece of plastic shite that catches her eye, so this means that there are children who have more than 30 kilos of plastic bought for them every year.

hmm

Not so much the parents but grandparents, aunts and uncles buy bulky plastic junk. I think they feel the bigger the toy, the bigger the impact...