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> Your frequent trips to the laundry will produce much more carbon than you could ever save by not buying an appliance that serves for 10 years on average. Not

> Your frequent trips to the laundry will produce much more carbon than you could ever save by not buying an appliance that serves for 10 years on average. Not if you go to the laundry next to the grocery. Why would you spend more money on fuel when you could combine a trip? > But blamind the consumer who is currently operating withing governing authorities guidelines is fair game. The consumer is the one that influences the market and has the power to remove or advance politicians. If there is no market to fill the producer will no longer produce. Do you think manufacturing moved to China because the corporations liked China and the logistics or because people would actually buy cheeper products made in China?

ClumsyPilot 5y ago
"Why would you spend more money on fuel when you could combine a trip?" Because there is no laundry next to my grocery store? Or Because you have to wait for hours for the laundry to finish, so for some people it's two trips, or because there are queues. There are no carbon savings in using a laundry, and this discourse in carbon accounting illustrates the problem perfectly - it is not possible for a consumer to trace the supply chain used by some megacorp which combines 150 minerals from 50 countries over 6 modes of transport to conclude anything accurate about carbon footprint. You mention politicians, but thats only coming round to politicians and regulation because the market has failed.