Comments on: Taking “Green” Too Far http://www.birkeyblog.com/2009/10/02/taking-green-too-far/ the personal musings and art of Randal Birkey Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:23:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Plona http://www.birkeyblog.com/2009/10/02/taking-green-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-1534 Tim Plona Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:57:24 +0000 http://www.birkeyblog.com/?p=1586#comment-1534 I could not agree with you more that "Green" and "Sustainable" are the new marketing terms of the age. 5- 10 years ago it was "e-" this and "e-" that on everything. I understand the towels and sheets in a hotel, that made sense, but many of the new efforts are simply excuses to cut corners, incite guilt or provide an inferior product. On this specific example, it seems that when a roll of TP is near the end, instead of leaving it they replace it. I assume the end up with a lot of very small rolls. To be green, they just needed to stop pulling the rolls when they are under 25%. Here in europe, they have no problem pulling the less than 25% roll and setting it on top of a full roll. Problem solved, no guilt inspiring green stickers. I could not agree with you more that “Green” and “Sustainable” are the new marketing terms of the age. 5- 10 years ago it was “e-” this and “e-” that on everything. I understand the towels and sheets in a hotel, that made sense, but many of the new efforts are simply excuses to cut corners, incite guilt or provide an inferior product.

On this specific example, it seems that when a roll of TP is near the end, instead of leaving it they replace it. I assume the end up with a lot of very small rolls. To be green, they just needed to stop pulling the rolls when they are under 25%. Here in europe, they have no problem pulling the less than 25% roll and setting it on top of a full roll. Problem solved, no guilt inspiring green stickers.

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