Towards a greener world

Towards the greener world

I visited Brooklyn Land fill the other day to get rid of our junk that we had accumulated in our garden shed over the years. Looking at the land fill I thought how long these landfills will keep taking our rubbish. If this is the condition of a country with a population of 4 million then what must be happening in places like China, India etc. We are pouring our rubbish in the mother earth as if it has infinite volume to accommodate filth created by us. The whole scenario demands a radical change in our “way of life” which has been driven to the present style by some greedy segments of industries. Don’t you think “Use and throw” concept was deliberately introduced to increase volumes of business without considering its environmental implications. Cost of the goods was brought down so low at the cost of its reliability that concept of repairing a product has been almost eliminated and once the product goes bad we throw it and run to buy a new one.
This goes very well with the industry selling that but goes against our environment. If you carefully examine, not only reliability of products is compromised, but even some cunning design changes are made to promote “Use and Throw” style. Take the case of simple “power plug” which had a few screws to assemble it and we had never heard a power plug going bad and even if some mechanical damage occurred, any person can open it up and set it right. Now the same plug is completely molded and you don’t see what kind of connections are there inside the plug. But we don’t care as the bloody thing is so cheap that once it goes bad, we just throw it and run to by a new plug. Walk through Wellington’s CBD area and you will find all the repairing shops whether they are watch repairing, white ware repairing or computers servicing etc. have died a natural death.
Now the problem is what we can do to stop this. Definitely, MSNZ Ltd can’t wage a war against a million companies worldwide doing this but we can begin our own campaign and give our contribution towards making a greener world. So we have decided to provide two quotations with every proposal for all your electronic security, point of sale and time attendance requirements. One quotation will be using standard computers and the second optional one will be using second hand computer suitable for the required system. If the standard quotation has one year “Return to base” warranty, the second hand option will have one year “On site” warranty. You will have the assurance that you will not have to compromise on any facilities/features if you opt for second hand option. Visit www.msnz.co.nz for more information.
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