26-07-2023, 11:08 AM
(25-07-2023, 10:25 PM)Zurdo Wrote:(24-07-2023, 12:42 PM)dken31 Wrote: It isn't economical for a developer (including KO) to hold up a development for the sake of even a few thousand dollars from selling the windows or timber.
Money, it's always back to the money in this neoliberal world. It costs too much MONEY to strip a house of recyclable fittings....it costs too much MONEY to clear up the slash in forestry, we just want to make more MONEY - NOW !!!
I bought a new battery for my car a couple of weeks ago...a Hankook, made in Korea. A couple of days later the guy turns up to collect our old batteries for recycling. I know we don't recycle batteries in NZ anymore, so asked him what they did with them. They go to Korea - so maybe a few molecules of our old batteries ended up in my new one. How about we fix the world instead of being obsessed with money.
Yes, everything comes back to the money that so many people don't have enough of. If the economy was working correctly then maybe other factors could take precedence - like buying local instead of cheap rubbish from China. But while we are heading down the slippery slope to socialism the government is giving more and more to people who won't contribute (instead of just supporting those who can't) and the rest of our economy is in trouble - health, education,crime, roading, etc. It's not neo-liberalism that's the problem, it's the unproductive part of our society that takes without giving.
If everyone did their bit we might not have to send batteries offshore for recycling but could deal with them here like we should. And tyres. And plastic bottles. And ....