Tuesday, 19 February 2008

The Landfill Prize Top 10

The Landfill Prize Top 10 is a list of Britain’s cleverest rubbish – unnecessarily convoluted consumer inventions that help to increase the teetering junkpile of refuse we Britons produce every year". Nominations were made by thousands of visitors to the Landfill Prize website - check it out to see the list of top-ten nominees in the Landfill Hall of Shame "luridly exposed in all their guilty, planet-draining detail".

The winner is a £179 electric toothbrush which is described as "the most resource-wasting, overcomplex piece of gadgetry that’s been witnessed by Internet voters in the past 12 months". Apparently it performed only as well as a £4 electric brush.

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