Monday 6 October 2008

News Digest

Starbucks gets itself into trouble for wasting millions of litres of water every day, they run cold water taps at “low pressure” for cleaning utensils. They claim that they need to do this to prevent bacterial growth but food hygiene experts are mystified by this assertion, conventional wisdom would be to use dishwashers.

True love is going out every night for three months collecting rubbish to recycle in order to get flights back from a dream honeymoon trip. The rubbish was recycled at a machine at a Tescos store where they collected loyalty points which they then converted into air miles.

Did you know that this is red squirrel week? Me neither, but a Scottish brewery is launching a Red Squirrel ale this week (no squirrels involved in the brewing process) and some of the proceeds will go to a charity trying to maintain their numbers.

6 comments:

McNoddy said...

Any excuse to drink a Sinclair brew sounds good to me!

phlegmfatale said...

Very cool of that couple to pay for their flights by tidying up the town.

DBA Dude said...

Noddy, Aye to that - and think of all the cute baby squirrels we would be helping.

Phlegmmy, One of those rare win win situations - even the supermarket will have got some good publicity out of the story.

Sezme said...

Starbucks = hypocrites
Happy couple....who knew that dumpster diving could pay off in love and airfare?
Beer made out of squirrels? What is this world coming to? /snark.

McNoddy said...

There's more.

DBA Dude said...

rt, Wish that my local supermarket had one of those recycling machines available - big incentive to clean up the toon!