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February 22, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Carton recycling label
Alan Clarke points out:
This recycling label was on the outside of all the heavyweight cardboard packing cartons supplied by Pickford's, one of the UK's largest and oldest removals.
They should probably recalculate the percentage of their carton's recycled content.
Actually, it may be a embelem they use for all of their products. For example one might say "Made from at least 90% recycled paper" This would be saying that someone just typed in the standardized text with a feild for inserting text ("Made from at least _____ recycled paper") that a computer would automatiaclly fill according to the product being printed on. Then again, it could just be a typo! Funny and Satisfying, even if it isnt broken! it deserves to be on this site.
Not Broken- whats wrong with high standards? is it wrong to make new things entirely out of old? Hell No!
Broken: People who comment that something is not broken, without bothering to figure out what the original poster thought was broken.
Looks like you were a bit too subtle for some of these folks, Alan.
Can ink be recycled or be made from recycled products? Is the ink on the box fully recyclable? The box might be made from 100% recycled paper but I doubt that the ink is made from 100% recycled paper.
As an oil product, ink is recyclable. When it is printed on paper products, it goes into the shredder and becomes part of the new paper.
May not be broken. Consider that the empty box may weigh 2 pounds. If it took 3 pounds of recycled goods to make the box, then it was made with 150% recycled goods. Hooya!
Actually, Tito, your posts are made of 0.2% (9/56) spaces, 0.05% (3/56) Arabic numerals, and 0.07% (4/56) international punctuation.
Which means that the post is actually at least 99.68% english characters.
Label might technically inaccurate but I agree with Ethan. Besides if they're recycling I consider it a good thing & say let it slide.
Let me propose a theory. Every time a piece of paper recycles it undergoes 1 (one) full cycle (that is, it gets 100% recycled). If I recycle this 100%-recycled piece the second time then it undergoes 2 (two) full cycles in total (that is, it gets 200% recycled). Moreover, if during paper production I mix 100%-recycled and 200%-recycled paper in equal amounts then the result will be 150%-recycled paper. If I mix 150%-recycled and new (non-recycled) paper in equal amounts then the result will be 75% recycled. And so on. "At least 100% recycled" means there was on average at least one cycle of reuse. Simple ;)
I wish I could remember the basketball player who, in a post-game interview, stated, "I gave it 110% out there. You can't give any more than that." One of my favorite professional athlete quotes of all time.
David go back to school.
To get percents, multiply ur decimals by 100.
9/56 = 16.07%
3/56 = 5.36%
4/56 = 7.14%
Therefore, Tito's post is 71.43% English characters.
Guys,
Some of you are really missing the point - which is that some allegedly intelligent English-speaking human being actually signed off the artwork for this logo as fit to print on vast numbers of cardboard cartons used by the UK's largest and oldest moving company :)
LOL that's funny. I guess they meant, what, 80% Oh, and for the people who LIKE stuff that isn't good for the environment, it could be, what, "0% at least" or something like that?
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That slogan must have been written by whoever said "give it 110%"
Posted by: Confused Shopper at February 22, 2006 12:08 AM