How Entirely Un-Green is That!

Have you ever come across a product and thought to yourself, "Good grief, that couldn't get any more un-green if it tried!"

Well here's your chance to get on your soap box and tell the world about it.

"The Lanffill Prize" has been created to name and shame the worst wasters who will be splashed all over the national press, very soon!

Here's the in's and out's of this particular pigs ear, direct from the website.

"Thanks to modern high tech, we should now have all the gear we need to enjoy comfortable, contented lives. Our culture is easily capable of producing myriad consumer items that are durable, reliable and useful enough to give years of great service.

It's not like that, though. We're beset with messages that tell us that the stuff we've got now isn't good enough – that we need more stuff, that we need stuff that's somehow improved, with ever more extras and options. It's all got to be new, too, rather than, ugh, so last year.

We've got fixated on producing and consuming stuff that has no future. It's only there to take our money on its brief trip from factory to landfill.

Our  instant scrap is becoming ever more sophisticated, complex – and planet-trashingly wasteful. That's why we're launching the first annual Landfill Prize.

It's to celebrate the stupendous creativity of the people tasked with inventing constantly inflated new wants for us to want. It's a monument to perverse imagination and needless consumption.

Most importantly, it's a plea for us to say, "Thanks. We've got enough stuff", and to evolve ourselves out of this crazy cycle.

We want your nominations for the most needless, wasteful uses of our planet's precious resources that you've seen, bought or been given in the past year. Whether it's a razor with enough blades to shave the badger population of Britain, an automatic cucumber peeler or a toothbrush with its own satnav capability, we want to spotlight such pointless human ingenuity as it makes its inevitable journey to the lifestyle junkheap.

We'll invite the makers along to a little prizegiving… and if they don't want to come, I guess we will have to pop around to their place to make the award."

That should prove interesting...

My slow-loving chum Carl Honoré (and bestselling author) dropped me a note to say he's a judge and your entries need to be in soon!

So give him a really good belly laugh and nominate your most offending un-green item, today. 

Just click here to get straight to the entry form and get it all off your chest.....

TS xx