More BBC drivel

Adam B.

I'd like to give up the BBC but they won't let me!

Nick Biskinis

I think the polite term for these pointless environmental gestures is 'greenwash', but i can think of some more organic descriptions.

Privateer

I'm still waiting for "Fire: the worst thing to happen to mankind"

n

It must be easy to give up plastic for a month when you're getting paid obscene amounts of public money for posting crap like that at taxpayers' expense. She must be howling with laughter all the way to the bank. Will she be cutting up her bank cards in protest at the evil of plastic, only to have to order new ones at the end of the month??

This smacks of vegetarians who wear leather shoes...

John Miller

I think its a great idea.

Personally, I give up Gevrey Chambertin for Lent. The rest of the year I merely can't afford it.

Tiberius

Hope she doesn't live in an area where Sharia is on the up. She may soon learn how infantile are her oh-so-superior predilections. irrelevant

Ryan

"Why not just go and live in a mud hut somewhere in the middle of nowhere?"

it's already been done stephen- you can see teh results here:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=177586&title=red-state-blue-state-report-oil

Roy

They must print this sort of perambulation to take their minds, and everyone else's, off the serious (non plastic) take-over of the country.

Frank Pulley

I'll bet she doesn't give poking her plastic in the hole-in-the-wall. Someone should have told her where to poke this copy when she submitted it.

Alex R

Stephen, it is actually worse than you think because plastic is simply the wrong target. As this recent feature in the FT makes clear, plastic is responsible for preventing huge amounts of wastage in the supply chain. In terms of weight, glass is easy the most wasteful form of packaging.

The former point was actually made to the BBC journalist in a News 24 piece on her "challenge". Obviously this was just totally ignored.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/823eebc6-1007-11dd-8871-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

Ann

I can't think of anything printable to say about the morons running the BBC.

Mark Solomon

Just underlines what is long overdue and was bottled the last couple of times - the BBC MUST lose its licence fee income, totally out of place in the 21st century (have you ever tried to describe the idea of a tax on TV ownership to a foreigner? Worse than the rules of cricket, makes the UK look Stalinist and bonkers) and a truly level playing field be introduced to broadcasting. It was already obvious before but the behaviour of the BBC since 1997 should make failure to renew its Charter a top priority of any incoming Conservative government. Please let's not bottle it again

Marcus Cotswell

It is in principle possible to make a TV, radio or computer without using plastic, but I bet nobody reading this owns such an item. So I suppose one advantage of not using plastic items would be not having to put up with the BBC.

John Jones

You are a prat. Can't you think of anything better to add.

Verity

Well, it looks like the rest of us will just have consume more plastic-wrapped goods to make up this woman's deficit. I will gladly do my part.