Fuller Smith and Turner's Ecological Hypocrisy in Rose and Crown South Ealing's Plastic Lawn
Friends of mine continue to be shocked by the petroleum product based plastic lawn that now carpets the garden at the back. Not a living blade of grass. Not a living thing.Few who went into the Rose and Crown last summer were not shocked by the appearance of acres of plastic lawn. Home of the Hanwell and Ealing Allotment Group, the Friends of the Ascott Allotment, and even Transition Town Ealing (not to mention Ealing'g green vicar, Steve, next door in St Mary's Church with his own ecological movement) one could not fathom Fuller's rationale behind this, clearly it was not going to grow the business by dumping a ton of petroleum-sourced chemical grass in the back garden, was it trying to distance itself from the ecowarriors?Not according to Fuller's website:https://www.fullers.co.uk/corporate/csr/environment"Environment"Fuller’s is committed to a programme of continuous environmental improvement, constantly investigating new ways to cut carbon emissions, reduce waste and save water."By targeting high-energy areas of the business, including kitchen extract, refrigeration and the lighting and heating of our pubs, we aim to match or exceed the UK Government’s long-term carbon reduction targets."The Government targets came into effect in 2008, and seek to reduce the nation’s overall emissions to 2,782 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e)"There is much on the Fuller's website about environmental responsibility and in the annual report too.What has gone wrong here at the Rose and Crown in South Ealing, a rogue establishment creating a blot in the Fuller's eco-copybook and eco-play. How can the local environmentalists cope with this sacrilige of theire favourite (once eco) venue?
Mark Julian Raymond ● 2294d4 Comments