Restricting Plastics,

[jarndice]

This morning the Television showed the Prime Minister watching wildlife through a pair of binoculars,
My Lady, the blessed Janet said "Oh, I Didn't know Mrs May was a Naturist"
Do you know I suddenly had a desire to head toward the bathroom,
But the reason she was on the television was to tell us that over the coming 25 years Plastics would become restricted in there use in the home to help reduce pollution,
So members of the Forum do your bit for the World and Buy Metal Hulls and Turrets and forget about ABS Tanks.
You know it makes sense.
Shaun.

[midlife306]

If only the local landfill was full of plastic 1/16 tanks


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[Tiggr]

Already on it Shaun

[AlwynTurner]

At least PLA is biodegradeable so those with 3d printers are ahead of the game!

Alwyn

[43rdRecceReg]

At least you don't see Tiger 1s floating around in the middle of the Pacific, nor being excised from Whale intestines Given the reverence with which we hold these alluring models, they're also unlikely ever to appear in a refuse tip on an Indian beach, or to end up in some monstrous landfill site at home and abroad. To this end, we are true eco-warriors, guys
Whatever happened to paper bags for products anyway? ..Ah, yes...we must save the trees. But at least trees can be 'sustainable'- to use the eco-jargon.
Food and veg were once served up loose in shops, and shovelled into Mater's straw shopping basket, with no recourse to plastic bags, unopenable transparent hard plastic cases, or flimsy plastic wrappers. Maybe we could return to that voluminous shopping bag norm..... Ahhh., but in these days of gender equality and Modern Man, it should be Dad toting it around.
Then dump the plastic bottles, and reward folk for returning the glass variety, much as they did decades ago.. 3d for a 'Pop' bottle That bought a 'Lucky bag' or a 'Wagon Wheel' (neither wrapped in plastic... )

[Estnische]

Which had me thinking....

When I look back at threads that are say, four years old, not many names are familiar. If they are not on the forums, where are their tanks? Presumably not in landfill, and you don’t see that many up for sale.

[wibblywobbly]

The plastic bag thing has always amused me. Am I to believe that when I threw my bags in the bin, the council collected them, and instead of incinerating them into oblivion, loaded them onto ships, took them halfway around the world, and dumped them in the Pacific?

[jarndice]

When we welcome another mu-- err hero to the Forum they often get a warning of its addictiveness,
I wonder if those poor unfortunate's who have not been around here lately have been overwhelmed by their builds much like the effect that being absorbed by "Triffid's" must be.
They not only cannot get out of their house they cannot get to the keyboard
We are doomed, we are all doomed (Roy could do this so much better).
Shaun.

[jarndice]

Wibs we were on holiday in the Maldives a few years back and we snorkelled out to a reef which had built itself into a very small island,
We were horrified to find it shrouded in plastic sheet and similar products (Although nothing that identified it as being from Bristol and District )
A good thing we were wearing flippers because there were broken coke bottles lying around,
So much for an unspoilt paradise,
And we would like to revisit Sri Lanka again but the beaches are more like the local rubbish tip than a place to go bathing so we stay with going to Mauritius most years which really is at least for now pristine.
Cuban Beaches are very clean but scuba diving seems to be non existent,
I wonder why?
Shaun.

[wibblywobbly]

I don't doubt what you are saying for a second, I've seen the pics of the floating plastic that is miles across. My beef is that because of the waste disposal systems in the UK, 'all' waste is processed. Yet, the government produces images of someone else's waste, then tells everyone that this is shocking, and then taxes the people in this country to reduce something that never originated here. They may as well tax nightfall because the days are too short. People just accept it and no one questions the simple logic.