I think they're horrible and tell my kids so. Your opinion is fine, bit I believe that it is all about building positive association with coles)/Woolies and brand names. It is actually illegal to advertise directly to children.. for well reasoned good science, but of course they have got around that.

What are you on about? It's not illegal to advertise to children. There are some regulations & guidelines around advertising fast food to kids but that's it.

But would anyone seriously buy them? We have 3 of the blue ones and heaps of the Gold ones. I think the coloured ones are so much cuter. The kids love them all and take a different one to school each day for their pencil lol

Same here

Is anyone seriously dumb enough to buy them?

I am so over thinking of the environment.

I'm more worried about our old age people in the community. They can't afford to put their heater on because they receive pittance to live on.

They've seen the horror of ww1, ww2, vietnam etc etc etc and yet they can't use a heater to warm themselves in winter.

So no. I Don't think of the environment. I worry about the aged people in our community.

The ones who built this country, have witnessed the horrors of war, have made a life for us, but still those who are so cold these winter nights.

Shame on us.

It’s very possible to consider both is it not? If we collectively don’t start taking care of the environment then there will be no need to worry about the aged because we won’t make it beyond the next few generations.

These items arent too much of a danger to the environment because people like them and collect them. They are unlikely to get thrown away in large quantities.
Its the plastic wrapping on food;
helium balloons that get let go in the hundreds at parties, float miles then land in the sea and get eaten by marine creatures;
food delivery containers and cutlery from outfits like deliveroo;
etc, etc.

And the cheap crappy plastic toys from China that break 5 minutes after the child starts playing with them at Christmas.

Not for resale