Scary...

No excuses..if the manufacturers of these devices want to sell them and profit, then its about time they organised the simple and easy disposal of them after the sell by date ?
It blimming hard work getting rid of them for the responsible owner and nobody should wonder why so many simply get chucked over the side.
 
Perhaps every set of flares should come with a return postage paid Jiffy bag, pre-addressed to the manufacturer or a www. return flares .com address PDF to print out.
Cannot be that hard for Gwad sake.
Why is disposal of anything always somebody elses problem and not that of the outfit which sold it.....Cars are good example and as for boats ;(
 
Er, no. Illegal to post flares.


"https://marinestore.co.uk/Ikaros_Red_Hand_Flare.htmlThis product is worth 50 Marine Miles toward your next discount . ... Red leisure hand flare having an average light intensity of 30000cd, 40 seconds of burn time and weight of 235g. Just hold the handle, pop open the cap and pull out the ring to activate. Flares can only be sent mail order within the UK mainland. Delivery ...

?????? H,mmmm.
 
"https://marinestore.co.uk/Ikaros_Red_Hand_Flare.htmlThis product is worth 50 Marine Miles toward your next discount . ... Red leisure hand flare having an average light intensity of 30000cd, 40 seconds of burn time and weight of 235g. Just hold the handle, pop open the cap and pull out the ring to activate. Flares can only be sent mail order within the UK mainland. Delivery ...

?????? H,mmmm.

They can only be sent via specialist courier companies, licenced for dangerous goods. Not Royal Mail. Not surprisingly,
specialist courier companies are perfectly capable of delivering to non mainland addresses, despite the marinestore claims.
 
So why the reluctance of manufacturers to clean up their own mess.
Anybody involved in the production/sale/use of single use plastic, esp. bottles should be shot at dawn .
AFAIAK. :)
 
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I’m sure the manufacturers or retailers could easily arrange disposal of the old ones but would probably double the cost so would give the cheapskates something else to moan about
 
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