| Ecobricks on 11:35 - Mar 10 with 744 views | Coastalblue |
This is clearly a good thing, so don't take me the wrong way, but it's just a repackaging of something that has been going on for years?
Decking and fencing, picnic benches and lots of other products made with 'timber' produced from recycled plastic? Lots of construction materials made from recycled tyres?
Is there an extra angle I'm missing here?
Again, not looking to question the motive, or be combative, just interested really |  |
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| Ecobricks on 11:36 - Mar 10 with 738 views | StokieBlue |
| Ecobricks on 11:35 - Mar 10 by Coastalblue |
This is clearly a good thing, so don't take me the wrong way, but it's just a repackaging of something that has been going on for years?
Decking and fencing, picnic benches and lots of other products made with 'timber' produced from recycled plastic? Lots of construction materials made from recycled tyres?
Is there an extra angle I'm missing here?
Again, not looking to question the motive, or be combative, just interested really |
They are cool but it says they should only be used inside and that the bonds between them degrade in 2-3 years so anything built may fall apart then.
As you say though, we need more ideas like this but with some more development.
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| A Palace of Self Righteousness? (n/t) on 11:40 - Mar 10 with 731 views | Bloots |
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| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| Ecobricks on 12:36 - Mar 10 with 662 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
On a much, much smaller scale, discarded fishing line, which isn't normally recycled, is being used to make fence posts used in otter fences to help protect fisheries from otter predation.
Anglers National Line Recycling Scheme were closely involved in the iniative in which up to 10 million metres of recycled line has so far been used.
Long way to go, ofcourse, but small steps in the right direction. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Those poor starving otters.... on 13:09 - Mar 10 with 613 views | Bloots |
| Ecobricks on 12:36 - Mar 10 by StochesStotasBlewe |
On a much, much smaller scale, discarded fishing line, which isn't normally recycled, is being used to make fence posts used in otter fences to help protect fisheries from otter predation.
Anglers National Line Recycling Scheme were closely involved in the iniative in which up to 10 million metres of recycled line has so far been used.
Long way to go, ofcourse, but small steps in the right direction. |
...when will the world learn? | |
| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| Those poor starving otters.... on 13:16 - Mar 10 with 594 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Those poor starving otters.... on 13:09 - Mar 10 by Bloots |
...when will the world learn? |
Yet to see an undernourished otter, or a cormorant on a diet for that matter. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Those poor starving otters.... on 13:31 - Mar 10 with 565 views | NthQldITFC |
| Those poor starving otters.... on 13:16 - Mar 10 by StochesStotasBlewe |
Yet to see an undernourished otter, or a cormorant on a diet for that matter. |
Otters are a lot smarter than humans, have no fear. Cormorants; not so much. Both are better for the planet though, yet vastly outnumbered.
Cormorants like to brag about their fishing exploits. You'll often see them sat on a post demonstrating the length of 'the one that got away'. |  |
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| Ecobricks on 13:47 - Mar 10 with 548 views | EdwardStone |
| Ecobricks on 11:35 - Mar 10 by Coastalblue |
This is clearly a good thing, so don't take me the wrong way, but it's just a repackaging of something that has been going on for years?
Decking and fencing, picnic benches and lots of other products made with 'timber' produced from recycled plastic? Lots of construction materials made from recycled tyres?
Is there an extra angle I'm missing here?
Again, not looking to question the motive, or be combative, just interested really |
A few years ago I was in correspondence with a company that made roofing slates from recycled car tyres; I was keen to use them on a project I was involved in
In the end the company could not supply any of their slates, there had been many problems with them
Apparently they curled up at the edges like a British Rail cheese sandwich after prolonged UV exposure
I'm not sure if they ever sorted out the issues
Shame really, I would have used a lot of them if they had been good enough and cheap |  | | |
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