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Top 10 Most Useless Products Of 2008

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Inspired by the 2009 landfill prize – an award given to the “most pointless, frivolous over-complicated and wasteful consumer objects from the last 12 months” – we came up with our top 10 nominations for the most useless, trash-can destined products of 2008, and here they are:

10. Plane Sheet: As if flying wasn’t bad enough for the environment, now irresponsible travellers [...]

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We were established by award-winning social entrepreneur Mel Young (Big Issue in Scotland, Homeless World Cup) in 2002.

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