Green living, Health, Politics, Nov 4th, 2010,
I’ve wanted to campaign for this for a long time. Restaurant or kids’ meal toys have always bugged me. For, as good as the marketing idea behind them might be, it only makes their existence and popularity all the more absurd. Toys in kids’ meals are a selling trick, and simply nothing more. Restaurant toys are not REAL toys. They are Asian manufactured gadgets of average to low quality, often unfit for toddlers, but equally unfit for any other child, as they are unable to entertain children longer than it takes them to stuff a burger and some fries down…
Tags: carbon footprint, happy meal, happy meal toys, kids' meal toys, mcdonalds, Pollution, Recycling, toys, waste
Green living, Weird Stuff, May 28th, 2010,
Remember when you were a kid and loved to play with Legos? (Actually, I know quite a few adults that still collect them today). Over the years, pieces can go missing, sets become lost or broken and all that hard work (before the time of step-by-step, color-coded instruction manuals) amounts to nothing. Today, you might have a box or bag of Lego pieces in your attic, bedroom or basement and you may wonder what you could possibly do with them. You don’t have enough to build a house or a zoo exhibit, that’s for sure, and you certainly don’t want…
Tags: Dispatchwork Project, global, Jan Vormann, Legos, recycle, repair, reuse, toys
