Making an ECO Site

[County4x4]

It appears that the website that was being set up at the top of this thread has recycled itself into the ether.

My personal take is that quite a few, though by no means all of the products sold by these "eco" sites are not all they're cracked up to be. The Ecover range of cleaning products was widely criticised for instance when it was revealed that they were tested on animals.

With Wikaniko - it may have been on here in fact, there was an extremely aggressive response when I pointed out that most of the blurb for the fuel saving magnets was actually defying the laws of physics! I seem to remember threats of legal action and shades of "we're bigger than you are so you better shut up" I found it all most amusing but I'd never buy anything from them as a result. The fuel magnets have been discredited all over the world as they don't work - but there are still people being taken in by the pseudo-scientific rubbish the manufacturers write about them and paying £35 a time. And Wikaniko are still happy to sell them.

There are examples all over the place. One "green fuels" company I know of sells biodiesel processors that are worth, in terms of materials, about £60, plus about an hour assembly time at the manufacturers. They sell these machines - which I should add are a poor and potentially very dangerous design, for over £300. They are painted a very nice shade of green though - so I suppose that's okay.

My personal opinion - which of course has only the weight that you give it, is that a good few of these companies are trading on what I refer to as "greenwash" and in reality their main concern is the profit they make, rather than the well being of the planet and their customers.

Just my two penneth...

Andy

[Indizine]

where is the link if you think it was here?

[County4x4]

Sorry Indizine - I meant by the OP - the link is at the bottom of the first page of this thread:

Can't post the actual link - not enough posts here yet.

Andy