tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post5125226529626395051..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Fun Online Polls: Recycling & NHS queue jumpingMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-88991724015715200562017-05-16T19:03:23.086+01:002017-05-16T19:03:23.086+01:00M, there are a few standard size jars left from th...M, there are a few standard size jars left from the old days of re-using such things: there is a standard 1lb jar of honey and also you still see the standard jam jar, although I don't know if it is a pound.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-34446804075484362017-05-16T07:55:45.372+01:002017-05-16T07:55:45.372+01:00B, yes, good point.
Recycling bottles makes more...B, yes, good point. <br /><br />Recycling bottles makes more sense than just recycling glass.<br /><br />The other upside to recycling jars and bottles is that manufacturers would agree a few standard sizes for everything, which would make stacking and sorting them easier.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-90510981814469408332017-05-16T07:43:57.436+01:002017-05-16T07:43:57.436+01:00"Glass got the most votes, even though it is ..."Glass got the most votes, even though it is not a particularly valuable raw material and is quite heavy to take back to the shop"<br /><br />Ah, but with glass, you are not talking about recycling, but re-use, which saves a lot more energy. As you point out, recycling glass doesn't really make sense. The raw material is cheap and it takes only little less energy to recycle it than it does to make it from new. The point about the deposit on bottles in the past was that the bottles themselves were valuable because they were going to be washed out and re-used. You can't do this with cans or plastic, which is why I, and I expect others, didn't vote for them.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-71271116848626813322017-05-15T21:33:13.896+01:002017-05-15T21:33:13.896+01:00Kj: " the queue-jumpers, although paying thei...Kj: <i>" the queue-jumpers, although paying their way, add extra days to non-paying queuers"</i><br /><br />No they don't. It is the same surgeons working in public and private sector. If they take a day off to do a private operation, that's one day longer the public sector patients have to wait.<br /><br />And seeing as the NHS can earn and extra £9,000 'rent' from the queue jumpers, it can spend more on doing more operations so that the NHS patients don't lose out.<br /><br />G, with EasyJet it is all or nothing. The NHS can be a lot more nuanced and simply auction off operations to the highest bidder, so next week costs £14k, in a month costs £5k and if you are prepared to wait a year, it is free. <br /><br />The payers will be paying a large chunk of the cost of the NHS patients - the queue jumpers are paying with £ money and the NHS patients are paying with time.<br /><br />It's a bit like private schools offering some free places to poor-but-clever children. The rich kids pay for the costs of educating the poor-but-clever kid.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-54240916777557238782017-05-15T20:20:17.167+01:002017-05-15T20:20:17.167+01:00Haven't we gone through this already with easy...Haven't we gone through this already with easyJet? You used to be encouraged to turn up early to get a good seat. Then they introduced speedy boarding for the people who did not want to arrive early. Then everybody bought speedy boarding. So now you just get allocated seating when you check in, as in the old days. The so called security enhancements that mean you have to turn up 2 hours before the flight probably contributed. If you have to arrive 2 hours early, then paying extra for speedy boarding just means you spend more time standing in a queueGraemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-44977300327221115972017-05-15T19:35:17.018+01:002017-05-15T19:35:17.018+01:00"So the NHS now has a perverse incentive to m..."So the NHS now has a perverse incentive to make waiting times even longer, that means it can actually boost the charge for queue jumping, that's the only downside I can see."<br /><br />That's a bit of a problem. And in theory, the queue-jumpers, although paying their way, add extra days to non-paying queuers. I think it's fair to say that politically, this is bound to create resentment regardless of the economics of it. Having people pay for treatments at private medical facilities isn't ever going to be that controversial (ignoring the wailing about private GPs as you mention above). People paying privately also saves the NHS money by not having to do the surgery, so might as well just don't do it don't you think?Kjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13530243002915410700noreply@blogger.com