Bottled Nige

After yesterday's lengthy excursus, a couple of snippets picked up from the 'news' ...

This crudely forged link tells the tale of a supposedly 'green' milk bottle -

http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/house_and_home/Reports/environment/Supermarket_recycling_initiatives_news_article_557_114865.jsp

Now, my own ecofascist council collects my plastic milk bottles under the pretence of recycling - and yet, according to this, the things end up in landfill. Why am I not surprised? A council's obligations in this matter, I believe, extend no further than collecting stuff 'for recycling', regardless of its fate. I don't see why they can't have 100 percent 'recycling' by simply giving everybody only green bins. That'd do the trick.
Meanwhile, some bright spark might work on designing a milk bottle that's easy to open and that pours where you want it, rather than all over the immediate vicinity (like those milk jugs you still find in hotels and tearooms, with a lip so narrow it can serve no useful purpose). Hang about - this particular design conundrum was solved many years ago, by the slender glass milk bottles that used to adorn the nation's doorsteps - and were recyced in the best, lowest-impact manner, by being collected and reused. What happened? I blame myself - I should have kept quiet about cow-juice.

There was a much more reassuring report somewhere, that a certain cheap Hungarian Merlot is the healthiest wine in the world, in terms of resveratrol content - the stuff that prevents heart disease, cancer, sobriety and all manner of other horrors. Being scientists, the cretins who came up with this finding failed to mention exactly which cheap Hungarian Merlot it was. Can anyone out there in the blogosphere track down this vital information? (and pass it on to me in terms of strict confidentiality). Santé!