Materials

T45 steel, also known as BS 4T45, is a British Standard Aerospace Series steel, primarily manufactured in the UK. While its original development was driven by the British aerospace industry for aircraft like the Spitfire and Hurricane, it's still produced and used extensively in the UK.

Marine plywood available in the UK is manufactured to British standards (BS1088).

Consumerism has created some CO2 problems:

The Consumerism problem:

Consumerism drives CO2 amongst other forms of pollution. Manufacturing (or embodied) CO2 footprint and CO2 emissions throughout the products life.

The IPCC report states that all humans should have a target of 3tonne CO2 lifestyle per year if humans are to hit NetZero targets.

The average CO2 lifestyle per person in the UK is currently 12.5 tonnes.

Problem with Electric Vehicles

Manufacturing an EV produces over 20,000 Kgs of CO2 (1 Tonnes = 1000kg) approximately 10 Tonne of that is to manufacture the battery. Car Batteries use large amounts of cobalt & lithium that are parked (not used) up 90% of the time.

The life of an EV that last 10years would have a 3tonne CO2 footprint - blowing the 3tonne CO2 per person budget

Problem with the bicycle industry

Uk bicycle brands are often designed in the UK, but made abroad. Raleigh is a household "British" brand, but has not been manufactured in the UK for many decades. Like many big brands it follows trends and replies on value engineering to comply to the minimum safety regulations.

Halfords employ students on minimum wage, so often cannot support the most basic of bicycle questions.

Problem with Deliveroo

Deliveroo is an App. However it drives a "gig economy". Deliveroo do not supply the riders with a bike. This "drives" the rider to buy a cheap electric bike. These electric bikes often unrestricted, have unsafe batteries that do not comply to UK standards. Why are large supermarkets using a gig economy supplier?

Front Load Hub-Steer Electric Cargo Bike - Family 20 20 model

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