On the radio the other day, they were discussing how we are all becoming far too wasteful. We would rather throw away a toaster, a kettle or an Iron instead of getting them repaired. They were urging Joe public to stop harming the planet by going out and buying new goods, instead start getting them repaired. I am a believer in if it breaks get a new one, I am wasteful but I thought okay I will keep this in mind next time something stops working as it should do. This led me to another thought, the DVD player in the garage that no longer works but it still looks like new. I will take it to the repair shop in town and see how much it will cost to fix. Then when it has been fixed I have no use for it so I shall take it to the local charity shop.

I called into the repair shop with the player under my arm, explained to the man what the problem was, first he smiled and then he kindly informed me that he charges £15.00 per hour for a diagnostic check, minimum charge 1 hour parts on top. He then told me not to waste my money and get along to Asda they were selling DVD players for £9.00. I could not believe my ears, okay the quality of the player is probably crap but £9.00 surely he was wrong? With a little research I found out that Asda sold their entire stock of 82,000 DVD players at £9.00 each. On telling this to my sister-in-law she then told me how when she was shopping at Tesco she had seen Irons for sale at just £4.00 each. Maybe if the government wants us to start saving the planet the first step shouldn’t be on educating us so much in recycling but to clamp down on the superstores importing cheap electrical goods, how much do you think the factory workers are getting in these sweat shops?