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[TV] Drowning In Plastic: BBC1 8.30-10pm This Evening
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AmexRuislip
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Recording it, there was some stuff found washed up near Hayling Island today, nobody knows where it came from!
AmexRuislip
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Apologies, my mistake, old news about Hayling Island.
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I wondered. I didn't find anything current back in May/July there were some items online.
Milano
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This is absolutely shocking stuff. The human race is a cancer on this wonderful planet. Nature WILL wipe us out at some point.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Some of the scenes there were mind-blowing. I feel we've bottomed out on this now, and people are aware of the harm that has been caused and there's a lot of good work going on to clean things up - a huge task which will take years to sort out, if ever.
I posted a thread on here earlier in the year with my thoughts on this.
http://www.northstandchat.com/showt...Football-Fans!)&highlight=Single+Use+Plastics
I posted a thread on here earlier in the year with my thoughts on this.
http://www.northstandchat.com/showt...Football-Fans!)&highlight=Single+Use+Plastics
It is truly amazing how we've fvucked up this 4.5 billion year old planet in the space of about 100 years.
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Bold Seagull
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Shocking, just mind blowing. Needs to stop, but it can’t stop when profits and growth drive the world’s economies.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Nope. Just been on BBC news. Nurdles!
Bold Seagull
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That is a ****ing joke. Honestly, moronic. May as well come with a free wanker tattoo if purchasing one of those...
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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Peeled Potatoes in plastic packaging are called crisps. Sold in their billions. Apparently.
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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It is going to take a native change in attitudes to create the necessary change.
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clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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Completely. My frustration is that all the conversation is about "recycling", rather than the use of ridiculous packaging in the first place.
Secondly, that issues like this are politicised then promoted as a "lifestyle" choice.
This is what governments are for. You only sort issues like this with legislation. Unnecessary packaging should be made illegal - end of. You just need an authority to say yes or no and a hotline to report it,
There was NEVER consumer pressure to peel an orange and place it in a plastic pot.
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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That is shocking. Where are they sold!? Ffs, there's no hope for us
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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When there is a health scare, I can think for example the chemicals put in paint strippers, the products disappear and "the market" and people adapt very quickly.
Everyone knows that black plastic is a nightmare to recycle because of the techniques used to identify plastic in the recycling industry.
Simple. Just ban black plastic products. No-one will die, businesses will quickly learn to adapt. Just like Brexit.
All it takes is legislation.
Some things are obviously harder than others, but banning pre-cut fruit packaged in a plastic container because you have removed it's natural container ?
Easy, easy, easy.
Everyone knows that black plastic is a nightmare to recycle because of the techniques used to identify plastic in the recycling industry.
Simple. Just ban black plastic products. No-one will die, businesses will quickly learn to adapt. Just like Brexit.
All it takes is legislation.
Some things are obviously harder than others, but banning pre-cut fruit packaged in a plastic container because you have removed it's natural container ?
Easy, easy, easy.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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hmmm. agree with what your suggesting in principle, using regulation or legislation. outright banning a particular coloured product seems heavy handed when there could be ways to modify the plastic so it could b detected.
i find this "black cant be seen" a bit dubious though. first of all because different councils apparently give different advice on recyclable or not. secondly seems to me unlikly that optical light is relied on to sort plastic that wouldnt tell different types of plastic apart. so there's something more technical here. black plastic is limited use recycled for anything other than black plastic, though as we seem to use a lot this shouldnt really be a problem (and also reason not to ban black plastic - what would you do with all the lower grade recycled stuff?). i wonder if the problem may be black plactic tends to be already recycled and lower grade? just sounds like something with a more technical reason than colour, either way a technical solution can be found.
GT49er
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Two wastes of plastic that really annoy me; Every week I get two or three plastic bags (inside more plastic packaging!) asking me to donate old clothes, etc. Just leave a card with a number I can phone to ask for a bag if I've got anything to donate - and then actually make sure the bloody well collect it!
Secondly, pills. We used to buy our aspirins - and get any pills prescribed for us - in little bottles with a label saying take two, twice a day or whatever. Now they come in little boxes, with each pill individually packaged in foil and plastic - what a nonsense! It might be hard for governments to stop charities pushing plastic bags through my letter box, but they could change whatever legislation it is that says it's unsafe to give us our pills in little bottles (which I presume is the reason for the current practice of individually wrapped pills..
Secondly, pills. We used to buy our aspirins - and get any pills prescribed for us - in little bottles with a label saying take two, twice a day or whatever. Now they come in little boxes, with each pill individually packaged in foil and plastic - what a nonsense! It might be hard for governments to stop charities pushing plastic bags through my letter box, but they could change whatever legislation it is that says it's unsafe to give us our pills in little bottles (which I presume is the reason for the current practice of individually wrapped pills..