brightspark
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i get it of my mate.its brill for starting bonfires and burning crap saves parafin diesel and petrol its free
Take your small betteries to the supermarket
but if you bung them £10 they let you tip commercial waste with no questions asked, but at least it kept fly tipping to a minimum. Restrictions to what you can tip merely causes the council more costs as locally fly tipping went up 7 fold locally in the financial years 2019/20 from the year before and who has to clear it up, the council.
When I was serving my time, 30 odd years ago, as an Agricultural Engineer, if you were on the farm, standard practice, was to tip, the waste oil over a patch of nettles.
Local quarry, just used to dig a hole, drive over it , then drop the oil out. Refill hole when job was finished.
Working on fishing boats, oil would be dropped into bilge, then pumped out at sea.
Absolutely no chance , at all. My glasses are not rose coloured, lol. Only have to look at plastic recycling , here , and the sheer amount ,of plastic floating about, the rivers and oceans , in the far east /asia.There are some well travelled people on here (I could call them Travellers, best not) who will agree with me, If the whole of the UK stopped tomorrow do you think any part of Asia, South America or anywhere else for that matter would stop these type of practices? It is just tunnel vision from a minority dictating to the majority and frankly I believe in most cases it is for personal gain. If it is a global problem, get everyone working on it.
Oh, I see, telling Jose out in the Pampas might be difficult? Well I never.
Talking to the driver of the tanker that collected our waste oil a few years ago it was sold to a power station. We only filled our tank a couple of times a year but he said he called at the Merc dealers once a week. Doubt he did this last year.
There are some well travelled people on here (I could call them Travellers, best not) who will agree with me, If the whole of the UK stopped tomorrow do you think any part of Asia, South America or anywhere else for that matter would stop these type of practices? It is just tunnel vision from a minority dictating to the majority and frankly I believe in most cases it is for personal gain. If it is a global problem, get everyone working on it.
Oh, I see, telling Jose out in the Pampas might be difficult? Well I never.
Not sending UK waste to those countries would be a start.
Exactly this. It is the double standards I cannot cope with.
The best start is less plastic packaging
Smaller containers that fit and don't try to fool you into thinking the container is full not 1/2 empty
I agree - doing away with supermarket carrier bags - that were used as waste bin liners and dog pooh bags - was the least of the problem.
I am having to to attack food packaging with a sharp knife to get thru the excessive packaging - that is the real problem.
The shopping bag - I was given I used twice!
Yeah I get your point - packaging that makes things look bigger - better value - sort of "air pie" (if you understand what I am weakly trying to say?)
In Germany the fine for that can be up to 50k€. So just being ordered to stop is relatively cheap.My stepbrother was in the army stationed in Germany. He said they used to dig a hole then drive the Warrior over and drain the oil into the ground before the German authorities found out and ordered them to stop !
In Germany the fine for that can be up to 50k€. So just being ordered to stop is relatively cheap.