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Jul 11, 2018 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1. Since you asked, pause and contemplate the Rigid Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) for liquids. I can see at least 20 standards and design specifications in one picture, all of which must be at specific dimensions for roughly the same reasons as shipping containers. (thread)
2. Pause a while and marvel at the amount of intellectual effort expended on bringing us this mundane but very necessary device. And the humble and ubiquitous pallet is about to become deeply political!
3. For all of time they have been the same basic design comprising of timber and steel nails. They are durable, standardised and infinitely recyclable. But they also have a short useful life.
4. Innovation is now moving us towards more durable stackable plastic pallets, more uniform in their fatigue life and stronger through innovative structures. This kills the traditional pallet maker - while spawning a whole new area for plastics producers to explore and enhance.
5. Then there is the question of recyclability. End of life uses for timber pallets are famed and many. Not so for the non-biodegradable monoform plastic pallet, which will require its own means of specialist disposal.
6. And so it is a reminder of how just one design standard that we take for granted can have minor but transformational effects, which is why you would seek consultation on such things.
7. Interestingly, while the IBC pallet is the product of ISO standards and UNECE regulation, the unit is classified as a Cargo Transport Unit for which there are joint guidelines from IMO, ILO and UNECE for packing and handling.

unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/…
8. Liquid transportation is always hazardous due to sloshing which can alter the pitch of a ship or change the handling of a vehicle. There are innovations coming into play to minimise this by placing internal walls within the IBC, which again will end up as a universal standard.
9. This is more expensive but It does, however, reduce risks. It reduces losses thus reduces insurance, making goods cheaper for all. This is the thinking behind the latest IMO SOLAS regulations on gross mass of containers so as to improve the stacking order on container ships.
10. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is roughly how dull the last 90 minutes of #ENGCRO has been for me. Now please take the time to read this article on aubergine marketing standards.

peterjnorth.blogspot.com/2016/06/and-no…

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Oct 5, 2018
1. Today in #Brexit tedium: You all saw the Barnier tweet reiterating that a Canada+++ is available and has been from the beginning. The ultra brexiters have taken that to mean an FTA plus whatever fiction they want tacked on to it.
2. They are dishonestly claiming this as a vindication of their position, conveniently ignoring that the EU will not agree to begin talks on any such agreement unless the UK signs up to an NI backstop. The EU is entirely consistent on this.
3. The ultas claim that a Canada+++ deal where they get to define what the plusses mean means that we don't need a backstop, Two problems here. The EU won;t agree to it and secondly, the details of their proposal has the same basic flaw as Chequers which the EU already declined.
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Oct 3, 2018
1. It is not conspiratorial to say that both Johnson and Rees-Mogg are front men for a very narrow set of interests. they are relying entirely on the IEA think tank set for ideas - which sees #Brexit only in terms of how their financial backers can advance their interests.
2. I have never heard JRM or Johnson give a detailed and convincing anti-EU speech. They know how to drop in buzzwords and eurosceptic terminology but they have stolen the clothes of anti-EU scholars who used to make up the eurosceptic movement.
3. Very skilfully they have cleaved euroscepticism away from Ukip which has freed itself to concentrating on grunting about Muslims. Most of the founders have either gravitated to the Tory fringes or bowed out completely.
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Oct 3, 2018
1. All the solutions to the various technical #Brexit concerns are to an extent sub-optimal, complicated and require a degree of compromise. Tories, though, would rather queue up round the block to be told life is simpler than it is.

#CPC18
2. Anyone can blether about sovereignty and self-determination but in the real world, regulation and rules are the WD40 of trade and without agreed norms trade simply doesn't happen. All trade agreements to one extend or other place constraints on sovereignty.
3. Brexit requires of us that we seek a balance between isolationism and subordination but since the EU is the regional and global regulatory superpower in this equation, to a larger extent it will call the shots. This is a simple fact of life. They are bigger than us.
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Oct 2, 2018
1. For the benefit of the hard of thinking and for possibly the billionth time, there is only ONE way to ensure the UK maintains its current trade with the EU and that is by joining Efta and retaining the EEA agreement. (#Brexit thread)
2.There are means to ensure the bare minimum essentials continue but the EU is a major market actually on our doorstep so there is no way we should even be considering options that only maintain the bare minimum. The UK as a matter of fact needs a fully comprehensive relationship
3. As pointed out by the European Commission, a customs union covers only those functions listed in red and is not EVEN required to address those issues. The majority of border concerns are regulatory issues covered by the EEA.
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Oct 2, 2018
1. So if reports are correct it looks like Mrs May is going to go with a customs union as her next move along with those rules necessary to keep the trucks rolling. No doubt this is going to upset the #Brexit Taliban. (thread)
2. As ever she's got it ass backwards where the the differences then between NI and mainland will be more profound than if we'd stayed in the EEA and ditched the customs union. This is what happens when you equate customs controls with customs unions.
3. So the plan, if we can call it a plan is a Turkey Plus sort of arrangement - or maybe the Jersey Option. Whatever ti is, it certainly is turkey - but it's bordering on workable which is closer than we've been before. It will probably fall over on the details.
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Sep 29, 2018
1. Time of a thread on this Toryboy dribble. The problem with a #Brexit FTA+++ ("with maximum recognition") is that the EU does not do mutual recognition where it has already has harmonised rules. it is never going to agree to an equivalence system. ...
2. Put simply if we go for an FTA+++ then the EU gets to decide the terms of those plusses. It can can look at maximum facilitation for revenue issues in relation to VAT and tariffs and technology can help but that pertains only to the customs union. The bits in red.
3. As you can see it doesn't even begin to address the issue of regulatory controls and though the EU does do MRAs on conformity assessment, they are never universal and only if there are exactly matched standards. The belief we can unilateral diverge is a fantasy.
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