Queens award for industry - does it count for anything

[chris_leyson]

Unilever & P&G got a Queens award for industry more like a Queens award for pollution. I sometimes buy washing "capsules" in a plastic packet that is maybe biodegradable, well it doesn't say so on the packet there is loads of other safety BS. As far as I can see companies like Unilever and Proctor and Gamble are doing fuck all in terms of terms of plastic pollution. Only the other day a 47 year old P&G Fairy liquid bottle washed up on a beach in Somerset and you could clearly read "4d off" in the paint so it's before 1971. I think they should forefeit their "Queens Award" because they've done absolutely fuck all in making something viable and sustainable. The Queens award for environmental achievement, fuck all there as well. Back in the day it meant something maybe. Rant over

[coppercone2]

i am shocked by the thread quality of plastic bottles in eastern europe. I am sure I am getting a high dose of microplastic from the abrasion on my vacation

the tap water tastes like shit and I opened a few plastic bottles and I thought someone smeared sand in the threads 

if it makes you feel better, you can take some plastics and melt them together into shop mallets to do your part at home



I wonder if someone can make a home solution towards using plastic trash to make 3d printer material or something

[coppercone2]

You can also cut it into strips with a jig to make a material thats useful for ties, and it can be used like a heat shrinking rope for fasteners.

I actually seriously wondered if it could be used for industrial production, since the materials of bottles are supposedly be well categorized, for things like strain relief. I have watched videos of it being tested before and it actually seemed very strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=hQeeJEpBYsg

this video shows some strength tests at the one minute mark or so. You would probobly need to gas trash with ethylene oxide to be able to convince a factory manager that its safe to be recycled due to biological concerns, the main reason I am scared to deal with recycling drinking bottles on any large scale (particularly from hard to kill viruses).

If such recycling was standardized I could see it actually being profitable to accept processed rope from people, because the sheer physical volume of trash would decrease by quite a bit. The jig is very simple, and people don't want to stop drinking bottled water.

How much less of a hassle would a 5 cent buyback (or even more $) be if you can bring a small bag of cut cord to the store? The main reason no one does recycling is because you either need to go to the recycling place often, or bring a giant ass bag of shit with you. Since the storage volume is drastically decreased nothing prevents you from saving up a few months of plastic in a small space and selling it by mass or such. The recycling job would be more pleasant too since your not dealing with smelly dregs inside of plastic bottles (i.e. rotten juice remains), since the consumer would wash it. You also need massive transport vehical requirements to move so much shit, you end up with a giant truck driving around with a few pounds of plastic on it. Unlike trying to make steel in your home, this great leap forward might actually be feasible.

[vk6zgo]

Unilever & P&G got a Queens award for industry more like a Queens award for pollution. I sometimes buy washing "capsules" in a plastic packet that is maybe biodegradable, well it doesn't say so on the packet there is loads of other safety BS. As far as I can see companies like Unilever and Proctor and Gamble are doing fuck all in terms of terms of plastic pollution. Only the other day a 47 year old P&G Fairy liquid bottle washed up on a beach in Somerset and you could clearly read "4d off" in the paint so it's before 1971. I think they should forefeit their "Queens Award" because they've done absolutely fuck all in making something viable and sustainable. The Queens award for environmental achievement, fuck all there as well. Back in the day it meant something maybe. Rant over

Back in the day, I needed a centre punch.
At a "tool shop",I saw some British ones which had received the------ (fanfare) "Duke of Edinburgh's  Export Award".

They looked great, really "high tech", with Teflon coated shaft to make the tool easy to hold, perfectly tapered end, & so on.
Ever hopeful that the Poms might once live up to their old "British & Best" slogan, I bought one.

The first time I used it, the tip broke off!!

Grumbling to myself, I went to the local hardware shop, which had a bunch of Australian made cheapies, loose in a cardboard box.
I bought one that lasted me for years, till I lost it somewhere.

Awards by Royal personages?
Not worth a pinch of Cockatoo poo!

[chris_leyson]

i'm not having a go a plastic per say, kermantel rope has saved me on a few ocassions, but how the hell do soap companies get a Queens award to industry ? I was just trying to decipher the stuff printed on a plastic package containing god knows what surfacants but it's got a Queens award to industry. It's about as useful as boy scout badge but you get a nice piece of engraved glass instead.