"Jake" wrote in message
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I'm sure all gardeners try and do their bit for the environment. I
find it a bit galling when, having given myself a hernia picking the
weighty editions of The Garden and Gardeners' World from my doormat
this morning, it turns out that the magazines weigh 500 grams and the
junk put in with them (excluding the RHS Handbook and the GW seeds
that is) adds up to 450 grams.

Yep! I was silly enough to actually weigh the junk before consigning
it all to my recycling bin, unread.

I suppose publishers will argue that the advertising subsidises the
magazine cost but there must be an impact on postage costs given the
almost doubling of the weight. And don't these magazines go on
regularly about trying to reduce waste ....

Rant over

I'm with you on this one Jake. The one thing that drives me mad is picking
up a newly delivered magazine only to have a shower of inserted junk fall on
the floor.

Bill