481: C30 C60 C90 Go! Monday 23 August 2010
Canongate, The Royal Mile , Edinburgh
“Where a product is demonstrably an improvement on its predecessor, either by virtue of function, safety or efficiency, then whole classes of existing products can immediately become obsolete.”
source: Consumption, planned obsolescence and waste (PDF)
480: Highs and lows Friday 20 August 2010
Eskside West, Musselburgh
“Tide times in the UK vary around the coast depending on the position of the moon, sun and various other influences. ”
source: TideTimes.org.uk
474: Take the weight off Thursday 12 August 2010
Charity shop doorway, North High Street, Musselburgh
“Being physically active for at least 30 minutes a day, at least five days a week, is easier than you think.”
source: NHS Choices
467: Rinse and return Tuesday 3 August 2010
Warwick Square, Carlisle
“The proportion of milk sold by milkmen slumped from 80% in the late 1980s to roughly 10% today.”
source: agrimoney.com
464: The best thing since Thursday 29 July 2010
Holyrood Road, Edinburgh
“While the official definition of brown bread is bread containing 10 per cent bran, some brown breads are just white bread with caramel colouring.”
source: All About You
460: Get it together Friday 23 July 2010
Lichfield Road, London,
“Over half of the adults in the UK have assembled self-assembly furniture in the last 2 years and of these it is estimated that 1.8 million received a minor injury.”
source: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
photo by Sam Oakley
449: White out Thursday 8 July 2010
Holyrood Road, Edinburgh
“David Cameron clouds the issue by not knowing his White Lightning from his Diamond White”
source: FactCheck
441: Footballers coming home Monday 28 June 2010
Bethnal Green Road, London
“Before you start moaning, angling for excuses, seeking a convenient scapegoat, stop.”
source: The Mirror
photo by Sam Oakley
427: Burn after reading Tuesday 8 June 2010
Holyrood Road, Edinburgh
“There are 21 national daily and Sunday newspapers (selling an average of 77 milllion copies weekly) and around 1,290 regional newspapers (with an average weekly distribution of 62 million copies weekly).”
source: Newsprint and Newspaper Industry Environmental Action Group
418: Stuffed Wednesday 26 May 2010
Reid's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh
“8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in the UK every year, and most of it could have been eaten. Some of the waste is made up of things like peelings, cores and bones, but the majority is, or once was, perfectly good food.”
source: Love Food Hate Waste
