Ex-Bond star looking ‘too young’ at 68
YOUTHFUL Jane Seymour JANE Seymour is keeping so well she had a job convincing producers she can play “old and gnarly”.
The ex-Bond actress, 68, told how she was nearly rejected for a role for looking “too young”.
But she added: “I’ll take all my make-up off and they’ll see I can do ‘old’ quite well.”
The four-times married star, who lives with British director David Green, does pilates, walking and light weightlifting to keep fit.
She told Hello! magazine: “My intention is to age as gracefully as I can.
“I try to stay away from sugar and fried food.
“Inside, I’m 20 years old. I was way too serious when I was that age.
“But that’s okay. I’m having fun and I love it.”
She added: “I don’t see any reason to get married again. I’ve been there, done that. And I’m very happy.” THE till receipt is the next target in the battle to obliterate waste.
Following campaigns against supermarket plastic bags, plastic straws and single-use coffee cups, an initiative called Beat The Receipt wants to outlaw paper receipts unless specifically requested by the customer.
Last year, 11 billion were handed out in Britain, with two-thirds of them going straight in the bin. That’s the equivalent of 53,000 trees, or the annual destruction of Sherwood Forest.
About half of receipts are printed on thermal paper which is not recyclable because the ink used contains bisphenol A, a chemical considered toxic to humans. Not forgetting the related associated wastage of energy and water used to make them.
California is considering a ‘Skip the Slip’ law to make digital receipts the default option from 2022.
But it’s not just receipts a problem.
Using the most recent statistics from the Civil Aviation Authority, the Office of Rail and Road for rail passenger journeys and the Department of Transport for bus travel, Omio, a travel booking app, calculated the environmental impact of paper tickets. It found that an extra 640,322 trees could be saved each year if travellers on buses, planes and trains were to adopt paperless ticketing.
“It’s sobering to consider the volume of trees that could be saved annually if all journeys by train, bus and flight were paperless. That’s enough trees to help offset 160,000 tonnes of CO2e(5),” said Chris Hall, director of Omio.
It’s easy to be cynical about such campaigns, not least when the Beat The Receipt campaign is headed up by the co-founders of Flux, a digital receipts and rewards platform seeking to capitalise on any switch away from paper.
But there is a benefit to the environment, albeit small, by helping to change behaviour and making consumers and businesses aware of their footprint.
Retailers for years resisted a plastic bag levy, yet usage has fallen 80% since it was introduced.
Eliminating paper receipts would be another step in the right direction. BIN IT Till receipt causing
This will make consumers and businesses more aware of their footprint