richms:

 

floydbloke:

 

Ads for pharmaceutical companies implore us to "Ask your doctor for <brand name>."

 

Does anyone actually go to their GP, get told "You've got <scientific name of horrific sounding condition utterly meaningless to a lay-person>" and reply "Oh dear, thanks doc, can you please prescribe me some <brand name> for that."

 

 

Yes, they do. And they don't listen to the GP about why that is not going to help them.

 

Yep - and all that does is slow down the already over-worked, time-poor GP. That’s one of the reasons there’s a push to ban the ads.

When buying say beer, what is better for the environment, glass or aluminium? I'm assuming glass due to energy required for aluminium production and plastic liner...

floydbloke:

 

Ads for pharmaceutical companies implore us to "Ask your doctor for <brand name>."

 

Does anyone actually go to their GP, get told "You've got <scientific name of horrific sounding condition utterly meaningless to a lay-person>" and reply "Oh dear, thanks doc, can you please prescribe me some <brand name> for that."

 

Senecio: For prescription medicines Pharmac decide which brand you are prescribed via their exclusive tender process. Once a tender is awarded that is the only brand dispensed in NZ until the tender is renewed.

And that's another goal of the advertising, alongside astroturfing it's used to try and pressure Pharmac into funding stuff that isn't necessarily beneficial and certainly isn't cost-effective.  Pharmac is the golden goose that every pharma manufacturer wants to control, and (at least some of) the ads are part of that.

chatterbox: Absolutely hate that Auckland used to be able to recycle more numbers previously and now can only recycle less. Makes no sense for your largest city to be restricted. Suppose I should put this in the "things that annoy you" thread.

Just out of general interest, how many people here are laboriously looking up the plastics codes on everything they throw out, vs. saying "it looks like HDPE, it'll go in the recycling"?  I'm annoyed at wishcycling but I'm also not going to spend ages agonising over which plastics code something might have.  Case in point, two pieces of plastic packaging currently waiting to go into the recycling, one is almost unreadable because it's shiny plastic but looks like 0.2 or maybe 02 (there's two digits in there and the second is a '2'), the other has the arrow-triangle but no code in them.

And a pet peeve which should probably go in the annoy thread, they're not recycling codes, they're plastics classification codes that say nothing about whether something is recyclable.  In fact some of the codes, like polystyrene and PVC, are almost impossible to recycle, while several others are difficult or not economically viable to recycle.  PET and HDPE are probably the most recyclable, which is why they're two of the codes that are still allowed.  Luckily most food packaging will be one of these two, so you've got a pretty good chance of getting it right if you can't find the code and just put it in the recycling.

SomeoneSomewhere: PET (1), HDPE (2), and PP (3) are the ones currently allowed. LDPE (4) doesn't seem to be commonly used in rigid packaging, but it's what most soft plastic is and we know how badly that scheme is going

PVC has a moderate amount of recycling, mostly of construction products: https://plastics.org.nz/environment/environmental-news/nz-s-pvc-recycling-scheme

The issue is that plastic needs to be *clean*.

As for aluminium vs glass, I suspect it's marginally in favour of aluminium. There's significantly more glass than aluminium per serving, both in volume and mass. That doesn't just affect the per-tonne production impacts, but also the shipping impacts - more product per pallet.

Glass is also not really worth shipping around the place to recycle because of the weight, it's pretty much shipping sand with lots of air pockets around the place. Reuse of them works out close to being worth it but other than crates of beer, never really see any reuse.

Rikkitic:

 

OhNo:

 

Why was my introduction post deemed to not be meaningful? 

 

 

If your title doesn't contain at least three words, it can't be meaningful.

 

 

 

Such pleonasm. Wow.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/ 

might be a place to start, should be able to narrow right down to the specific place, and it does have some do's and donts

@OhNo:

 

Rikkitic:

 

OhNo:

 

Why was my introduction post deemed to not be meaningful? 

 

 

If your title doesn't contain at least three words, it can't be meaningful.

 

 

Thank you. Ive made a more meaningful post. New user you know what its like lol. :) 

 

I actually had a chuckle on this interaction.

What is the expected range of your average powerline network extender (assuming good electrical connection)? Would 200m be pushing it?

outdoorsnz:

 

When buying say beer, what is better for the environment, glass or aluminium? I'm assuming glass due to energy required for aluminium production and plastic liner...

 

Aluminium is lighter so uses less fuel to transport - both empty to the brewery and then to the outlet, and then again to the recycling facility. Full cans can be packed closer together than bottles so you get more of them on a pallet than glass.