GHA
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Nothing whatsoever to do with sailing, could you take your views to the lounge instead>>
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rogerthebodger
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Right but its this guy Fred Drift again.
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I am reporting my posts as nothing to do with the thread. Is that OK?
macd
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Since you ask, about three months: since parliament was de-prorogued.
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We can only hope the idea catches on around the world.
"Major retailers in Thailand will ban single use plastic bags as of January 1st 2020 to cut down on waste. It's largely due to the efforts of school girl Ralyn 'Lilly' Satidtanasarn, who's been dubbed the Greta Thunberg of Asia.20 hours ago.
12-year-old leads the charge in Thailand’s plastic bag ban | ABC News
"Major retailers in Thailand will ban single use plastic bags as of January 1st 2020 to cut down on waste. It's largely due to the efforts of school girl Ralyn 'Lilly' Satidtanasarn, who's been dubbed the Greta Thunberg of Asia.20 hours ago.
12-year-old leads the charge in Thailand’s plastic bag ban | ABC News
Ningaloo
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I'm bemused by this.
Given the stated environmental cost of manufacturing paper, why is anyone who is concerned with the environment subscribing to a printed magazine? Why not take a digital subscription?
I'm currently on a delightful, unspoilt tropical island in Cambodia. White sand beaches backed by palm trees and (so far) little tourist development beyond bamboo beach huts. No debris on the beach which is swept at dawn, but walk or swim to other areas of the coastline and the plastic litter is a metre deep.
Only one of the lodges/restaurants here has a plumbed in chilled water filter for refilling water bottles. All the others hand out endless 500ml bottles of water. (We get 2 a day left in our room when it is cleaned and get others while on the beach during the day). Often bottles are discarded half full because the water is warm so a fresh one is taken from the fridge.
I intend taking this up with the manager of the lodge I am staying in before we leave. As I see it a filtered water supply would be in everyone's interest. The lodge would not have to transport tonnes of bottled water or deal with the collection and disposal of all the waste bottles. They might even make $ or two selling refillable water bottles of anyone arrived without one. And I genuinely believe that most tourists do not want to destroy the beauty they have travelled to see.
Having written this I'm just pondering on numbers. On this one (very) small beach there are about 6 lodges with 20-30 rooms each (plus some additional tents). So 6x25x2 = 300 persons requiring maybe 2l / day = 1,200 single use bottles a day!!!
Given the stated environmental cost of manufacturing paper, why is anyone who is concerned with the environment subscribing to a printed magazine? Why not take a digital subscription?
I'm currently on a delightful, unspoilt tropical island in Cambodia. White sand beaches backed by palm trees and (so far) little tourist development beyond bamboo beach huts. No debris on the beach which is swept at dawn, but walk or swim to other areas of the coastline and the plastic litter is a metre deep.
Only one of the lodges/restaurants here has a plumbed in chilled water filter for refilling water bottles. All the others hand out endless 500ml bottles of water. (We get 2 a day left in our room when it is cleaned and get others while on the beach during the day). Often bottles are discarded half full because the water is warm so a fresh one is taken from the fridge.
I intend taking this up with the manager of the lodge I am staying in before we leave. As I see it a filtered water supply would be in everyone's interest. The lodge would not have to transport tonnes of bottled water or deal with the collection and disposal of all the waste bottles. They might even make $ or two selling refillable water bottles of anyone arrived without one. And I genuinely believe that most tourists do not want to destroy the beauty they have travelled to see.
Having written this I'm just pondering on numbers. On this one (very) small beach there are about 6 lodges with 20-30 rooms each (plus some additional tents). So 6x25x2 = 300 persons requiring maybe 2l / day = 1,200 single use bottles a day!!!
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rogerthebodger
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Come on guys we have an almost infinite resource for plastic boats.
Some very good Practical Boat Owners here.
As I said before I am collecting plastic bottles for the floats of my new jetty for my plastic (GRP) motor boat.
Some very good Practical Boat Owners here.
As I said before I am collecting plastic bottles for the floats of my new jetty for my plastic (GRP) motor boat.