We all know (or so we are told) that we live in more and more environmentally friendly times yet our standards of living continue to rise and we seem to be able to spend more and more each day on disposable items or electrical goods.
During 2006 apparently Britons were buying a Flat Screen TV virtually very 15 seconds and so given the fact that one of the latest “hot” items to own nowadays would appear to be the Flat Screen TV, just how environmentally friendly are we becoming, truly?
Well the story isn’t necessarily as bad as one would immediately think because you have to remember that we are thinking about the big picture here (if you will pardon the pun) and that as well as the actual potential damage to the environment that the disposal of conventional TV brings about we have to consider as part of the global equation, the actual cost of manufacture to the environment. These huge items have to be manufactured somewhere and those factories by and large will have an impact upon wherever they are located and at what cost?
There will be a following series of articles discussing the cost and impact of the factories themselves (you will be pleasantly surprised at this, I know I was) and also an attempt to look at the so called “green” credentials of all of the major manufacturers.
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