polystyrene fish boxes

[Birdseye]

i imagine very few of us have the luxury of a job/business that causes no environmental damage, directly or otherwise.

Which is both the cause and the excuse. I used to live amongst the hill farmers of the pennines and they were environmental vandals almost to a man. One of them had a deal with the local paper mill to get rid of their waste from toilet paper production so you regularly saw his fields turning a nice shade of pink or blue. But mostly they just dump old machinery and waste on their land and never clean it up.

But how about heavy industry? I worked in a steel mill which for years had simplt poured cheap hydralic oil into its mill stands rather than cure the leaks so when we removed parts of the mill and dug down for new foundations we didnt get water coming up but oil. And in the hundreds of gallons.

Then of course there are the office based desk drivers, who these days dont live walking distance from the office but commute huge distances polluting the air with the energy they use to do so, not to mention the wrappers from Pret or McD.

 

[Stemar]

Then of course there are the office based desk drivers, who these days dont live walking distance from the office but commute huge distances polluting the air with the energy they use to do so, not to mention the wrappers from Pret or McD

Well, that was me until I retired, and my father before me but at least we used the tube. Not a lot of Pret or McD wrappers, though. Lunch wrapper was a Tupperware to hold a sarnie from home. Maybe Covid will make an ongoing reduction in commutes, as few employees could afford a home within walking distance of a town centre office.

 

[SaltyC]

Well, that was me until I retired, and my father before me but at least we used the tube. Not a lot of Pret or McD wrappers, though. Lunch wrapper was a Tupperware to hold a sarnie from home. Maybe Covid will make an ongoing reduction in commutes, as few employees could afford a home within walking distance of a town centre office.

AAh, the good old Tupperware, reusable and environmentally semi friendly as opposed to the McRubbish I find outside our garden every morning. Unfortunately we appear to be the (in)correct distance for the consumption of a Burger / Drink for the rubbish to then be thrown over the shoulder. Lockdown and closure of McD was brilliant!

 

[PilotWolf]

?????

Where do you think these fish ‘items’ come from?

Fishermen mayb?

PW

 

[cherod]

AAh, the good old Tupperware, reusable and environmentally semi friendly as opposed to the McRubbish I find outside our garden every morning. Unfortunately we appear to be the (in)correct distance for the consumption of a Burger / Drink for the rubbish to then be thrown over the shoulder. Lockdown and closure of McD was brilliant!

That seems to be the general mentality of the McD dinner , perhaps all that polyfats dulls their minds ( apart from their obeseness putting their health at risk ansd everyone else has to pay for it ) it is the same here , a certain element think that it is cool to litter the public car parks with their trash . Unfortunatly they all seem to have “ hot “ fiestsas or corsas .

 

[cherod]

Where do you think these fish ‘items’ come from?

Fishermen mayb?

PW

Sometimes i wonder how they manage to catch anything judging by the amount of discarded nets ropes gear etc strewn along our shoreline .

 

[PilotWolf]

Sometimes i wonder how they manage to catch anything judging by the amount of discarded nets ropes gear etc strewn along our shoreline .

Well you’re entitled to
toir opinion, even though you avoided my question. But a lot of that waste is also from passing shipping but fhat doesn’t suit you’re agenda does it?

I’m out of the argument. Enjoy your fish and chips.

PW

 

[cherod]

Endless nets , bouys , ropes , plastic fishing gear strewn on the sea shore is not an “ opinion “ ....... The “ passing shipping “ in our waters do not use or discard fishing nets , i can and do enjoy fish , thst in no way absolves you or those you chose to be an apologist for from mindless poluting of the seas

 

[lenten]

Sometimes i wonder how they manage to catch anything judging by the amount of discarded nets ropes gear etc strewn along our shore
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------there seems to be an opinion that fishermen diliberately discard fishing gear----i don t know of any fisherman that would stupid enough to do that------fishermen are out at sea all year round so are more at risk of fouling by lost-"discarded"????? gear

 

[fisherman]

there is a lot said about ghost nets left at sea. The rope these nets are rigged on is very expensive, the (monofil nylon) nets are brought ashore, stripped, and sent to make carpet and pallets. They even pay for it, I think.
Not to say that some isn't lost accidentally, but the effort is made.

....in this country.

for 'discarded' read 'lost'. An unfortunate consequence but not deliberate.
The damage caused by a sheet of netting, in my case, was a gearbox taken off the engine