At the weekend.
In Youghal, Co Cork.
Clean Coasts Ballynamona tweetz:
From our beach clean in Redbarn on Saturday. So let’s try and see if we are dating this bottle correctly. Would it be late 1960s maybe? Seeing as the currency changed in Ireland in 1971?
Anyone?
Meanwhile…
Clean Coasts Ballynamona adds:
This KP packet of Alien Invaders has a best before date of 11th Jan 1986. This was 31 years old when it was cleaned up in a beach clean…
Meanwhile…
Clean Coasts Ballynamona writes:
This plastic bottle all the way from France was found on Ballynamona Beach. The price on it is the Nouveau Franc, used in France between 1960-62, making this plastic rubbish approx 55 years old.
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and your point is what? we need to use plastic, how come there’s a charge to collect green waste in Ireland but kerbside collection in France is free?
we are ripped off again and again.
You must be either trolling or completely oblivious. We don’t have to use plastic. We choose to use plastic. Do you not find it worrying the amount of sh*te that we throw into our seas? Do you not find it worrying that detritus from decades ago is still floating around killing sea life while we just add and add to it until it fills the seas and overflows onto our beaches? No, it would seem all you are worried about is maintaining your perceived comfortable status quo and for you not to have to pay the price while the environment that sustains you does…
so what do you propose syringes are made from?
or colostomy bags. or a million other products?
ps you are a dope
Actually he is right and the dope is you
Other biodegradable materials can be used also some things cannot be used except from plastic
All the packaging from the supermarkets and industry is one thing to look at and maybe a tariff on manufacturing that cannot be redeemed by making the consumer pay more should be introduced.
As a chef I see many items wrapped in plastics like aubergines individually packed and all those offers of 4 tomatoes packed or small bags of carrots etc in supermarkets
Its time government stopped pandering to industry
Are any of these items colostomy bags or syringes? No. They’re convenience items. There’s a difference. You know there’s a difference. Don’t be a fool.
or a dope Ollie or & 7Ollie, or whatever/whomever you chose to be today..
It’s boring taking responsibility, when you could be watching sports or shopping, but it’s part of being a grown-up.
it isn’t free
garbage tax is included in your yearly tax
https://www.frenchentree.com/french-property/french-tax/local-taxes-ordures-menageres-or-refuse-collection/
Ordure is a great word.
n’est pas ?
Love that movie
https://youtu.be/CHkglggVOhg
Le Père Noël est une ordure
you misunderstood. i can bring my plastic and cardboard to a kerbside bin, like we have for glass bottles and recycle it for free. in ireland you pay.
also the original point was that we can live without plastic, we can’t
we lived fine thanks very much without it for 5-7 million years up until 1907
Did we, though?
We pay for our rubbish collection here in France.
We pay for our water too.
we pay for water in ireland. and you pay tv licence in France via property tax. what’s your point?
“3 hands washing up”
Remember that?
I can…. :) ….in colour and black and white !
Hah!
Hope you are all in great form…. from myself and Mrs Clampers… we’re on honeymoon ;)
Enjoy it Clamps!
Brucie did the advert.
living it up I hope
delighted for you
clampers ahoy!!!
Have fun!
Happy days Clamps!
enjoy – but get off the internets before she becomes Mrs ex-Clampers!! or possibly ex-Mrs Clampers
congratulations clamps!!
Congratulations me aul flower :)
Cheers y’all :)
Who were the civic-minded souls doing the beach cleaning over the weekend? I didn’t know anything about it until I saw them in action.
I also felt like a complete pig for not being there to lend a hand.
http://www.dublincity.ie/teamdublincleanup
They have posters up about it and everything. The ones near me offer the choice of Sepultura, IE/DC, Canal Cleanup, or the Migos II album.
Thanks Kieran!
My God! Just goes to show how much work we need to do as a species to breakdown plastic for Nature
alien spacers are in the top 10 best things about my childhood
They don’t make things like they used to.
Nowadays plastic bags just fall apart after only 10 or 12 years.
Alien Spacers, the best corn snacks that money could buy back in the 80s.
Nostalgia. The unintended positive impact of non-degradable plastics.
fun fact: plastic never totally breaks down to individual molecular elements. it stays plastic forever. Fish eat it cos it looks like plankton.
So I read somewhere, anyway.
then we eat it :)
we also eat clothes fibers that make thier way into fish
What goes around comes around. Or so they say.
karma innit
It’s the circle of life…