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The local milk supply uses glass bottles but apparently the lids can’t be reused. They are metal painted inside and out, with ring of closure to seal and edges turned to tighten. Worth conserving, could surely go through an autoclave but food and safety freak out.
Due to food safety guidelines, we are unable to re-use our bottle lids. But don’t worry, the lids are still recycled. All the lids we collect are picked up by a metal recycling business who recycle the lids into other products.
We absolutely have to stop this World Order by Decree that understates regulations or allows them to be bypassed on one hand, and sets 110% demands to others – all while the earth falls away from our feet.
And have we started a return on glass bottles.? And what about those plastic ones. Why can’t we fill with cool, safe water to our own. Or buy a reusable cup for a small amount. The small glass RTDs use up all the spare cash that the young and feckless manage to earn. Then the local councils have to deal with them. Let’s get a system where they pay for themselves with a fee on sale and it’s not all borne by the overcharged ratepayer. Who then is charged 15% GST on his/her rates. I’m so pissed at how things are moving glacially, which no longer means anything because the melting is speeding exponentially while we all play the fiddle.
Gordon Campbell and Scoop with thoughts on prices.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2305/S00002/on-the-politics-of-greedflation.htm
Even though inflation has peaked – it fell to 6.7% last week – we are still being told to expect high interest rates to persist well into 2024, or beyond. This is despite the lack of evidence that household spending and wage growth justify the Reserve Bank’s determination to keep on clobbering low and middle income households with high interest rates as the best (and so far, only) remedy for the cost of living crisis. This hammering away at household spending – and at employment – assumes that the main cost-of-living drivers are all lined up on the demand side of the economy.
This brings to mind a brainfart that rising costs with fixed percentage margins causes inflation. I thought that an item costing 10c with 20% markup would be priced at 12c, a gross profit of 2c. But if the cost doubled to 20c with 20% markup that would take it to 24c, a gross profit of 4c ie double the previous profit but with no change in expenses so it’s an extra profit to the seller in difficult times. They should have more specials I think.
So rising costs and prices in shops benefits them, and sucks money from the consumer.
I note in my supermarket that chicken rolls that don’t sell are put in the freezer at some reduction, December 2022 $9.09 (possibly wrong should be $9.90), but March 2023 $11.99. that is quite a hike. The free-range chicken in freezer remains dear and might till kingdom-come it seems.
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