I live next to a park and these things are a fucking menace by the end of the summer there are a whole bunch of little singed orange rectangles where some twats have just plonked them down, lit them and burned out the grass
I have a briefcase bbq, that is similar size but folds down to a briefcase that contains the utensils too. It also has legs so the bbq isn’t sitting on the ground. It was only £20 new from Sue Ryder. Much safer and reusable.
Along the beach where I live the council has replaced the wooden picnic benches with plastic ones. Almost every one has a melted rectangle in the top thanks to some restarted holiday maker and their disposable BBQ. Who would think that burning charcoal gets hot eh?
We should probably put some money into having proper and safe bbq spots in some parks. Rent out equipment so it goes back into park funds and make sure people use it correctly
Phew we’ve saved the world one bbq at a time.
Ukraine burns…..
From memory, at least two national nature reserves have each had hundreds of acres burnt through these things in the last ten years – one in yorkshire, one in surrey . Why they’re legal is beyond me.
Main problem with these is people not actually disposing of them properly. I was walking with a friend and he trod on a grate/grill thing and it cut up his ankle pretty deep, they’re really sharp.
Good.
It seems it’s almost a given that anyone using one outside their own garden is going to fucking burn everything and then leave it.
They’re the Audi drivers of eating burnt food.
In Hong Kong it’s common for parks to have small brick BBQs with metal grills firmly attached to them (like they’re built into it, so you’d have to completely smash the BBQ to get to it – we all know how long it’d take the grill to be robbed in the UK if this wasn’t the case). Probably cost next to nothing to make as well.
When all the restaurants were closed these things were everywhere in the park where I take my dog. Well, I’ve eaten my badly cooked burger, time to just leave!
Brilliant. Climate changed sorted. Let’s pack up and all go home.
I’m all for this, but councils need to step up services to fill the gap. On Jesus Green in Cambridge there is a designated BBQ zone but bizarrely the rules ban anything but disposable BBQs. I’ve got a portable Weber charcoal bbq but I cant use it, so I end up buying disposables…
I’m all for cleaning up the environment, but given that most pollution and waste comes from large corporations (including the likes of Waitrose and Aldi; plenty of skinned fruit wrapped in plastic there) this just seems like it’s unfairly depriving people who don’t have the space or money for a permanent bbq from being able to do so.
I genuinely never realised they’d end up in landfill, I sort of assumed that it was metal so they’d just recycle it. Is there any reason this isn’t possible?
I mean we ought to be constantly pushing everything to be sustainable. Otherwise…
I remember playing footie as a kid and going to a really posh village to play a team which had a BBQ in their park. No, we did not suggest that we have sausage and burgers afterwards, we all wanted to piss in it.
Here in the Highlands they cause so much havoc in our protected areas.
The heat burns the peat and when peat starts to burn it’s insanely difficult to control.
I’ve seen so much protected forest in the Cairngorms destroyed over the decades due to negligent idiots.
called the fire brigade last year after someone put what they thought was an extinguished disposable BBQ in a massive dumpster bin on the sea front.
I’m all for people having BBQs, but calling these things ‘disposable’ in the first place is bloody stupid. Coal/charcoal should be the only disposable part of a BBQ.
Yay! Can Morrisons do this too now? My partner always gets them from there and it pains me to see it.
Although I have finally managed to get a somewhat reusable one. But I feel the quality of it is terrible, I doubt it will last for more than ~25 runs tbh. The thin stamped metal is already deforming a fair bit.
Still beats a single use BBQ though. I want to make a proper brick firepit/BBQ but am not allowed 🙁
AND BAN THEM FROM APARTMENT BUILDINGS!!! Thanks I love closing my windows on the hottest day of the year.
Good, I’ve seen too many beautiful natural areas burnt down by these things. It’s not about the waste, it’s about the fire mismanagement.
Good they’re pretty shite and horrific for the environment
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I live next to a park and these things are a fucking menace by the end of the summer there are a whole bunch of little singed orange rectangles where some twats have just plonked them down, lit them and burned out the grass
I have a briefcase bbq, that is similar size but folds down to a briefcase that contains the utensils too. It also has legs so the bbq isn’t sitting on the ground. It was only £20 new from Sue Ryder. Much safer and reusable.
Along the beach where I live the council has replaced the wooden picnic benches with plastic ones. Almost every one has a melted rectangle in the top thanks to some restarted holiday maker and their disposable BBQ. Who would think that burning charcoal gets hot eh?
We should probably put some money into having proper and safe bbq spots in some parks. Rent out equipment so it goes back into park funds and make sure people use it correctly
Phew we’ve saved the world one bbq at a time.
Ukraine burns…..
From memory, at least two national nature reserves have each had hundreds of acres burnt through these things in the last ten years – one in yorkshire, one in surrey . Why they’re legal is beyond me.
Main problem with these is people not actually disposing of them properly. I was walking with a friend and he trod on a grate/grill thing and it cut up his ankle pretty deep, they’re really sharp.
Good.
It seems it’s almost a given that anyone using one outside their own garden is going to fucking burn everything and then leave it.
They’re the Audi drivers of eating burnt food.
In Hong Kong it’s common for parks to have small brick BBQs with metal grills firmly attached to them (like they’re built into it, so you’d have to completely smash the BBQ to get to it – we all know how long it’d take the grill to be robbed in the UK if this wasn’t the case). Probably cost next to nothing to make as well.
When all the restaurants were closed these things were everywhere in the park where I take my dog. Well, I’ve eaten my badly cooked burger, time to just leave!
Brilliant. Climate changed sorted. Let’s pack up and all go home.
I’m all for this, but councils need to step up services to fill the gap. On Jesus Green in Cambridge there is a designated BBQ zone but bizarrely the rules ban anything but disposable BBQs. I’ve got a portable Weber charcoal bbq but I cant use it, so I end up buying disposables…
I’m all for cleaning up the environment, but given that most pollution and waste comes from large corporations (including the likes of Waitrose and Aldi; plenty of skinned fruit wrapped in plastic there) this just seems like it’s unfairly depriving people who don’t have the space or money for a permanent bbq from being able to do so.
I genuinely never realised they’d end up in landfill, I sort of assumed that it was metal so they’d just recycle it. Is there any reason this isn’t possible?
I mean we ought to be constantly pushing everything to be sustainable. Otherwise…
I remember playing footie as a kid and going to a really posh village to play a team which had a BBQ in their park. No, we did not suggest that we have sausage and burgers afterwards, we all wanted to piss in it.
Here in the Highlands they cause so much havoc in our protected areas.
The heat burns the peat and when peat starts to burn it’s insanely difficult to control.
I’ve seen so much protected forest in the Cairngorms destroyed over the decades due to negligent idiots.
called the fire brigade last year after someone put what they thought was an extinguished disposable BBQ in a massive dumpster bin on the sea front.
I’m all for people having BBQs, but calling these things ‘disposable’ in the first place is bloody stupid. Coal/charcoal should be the only disposable part of a BBQ.
Yay! Can Morrisons do this too now? My partner always gets them from there and it pains me to see it.
Although I have finally managed to get a somewhat reusable one. But I feel the quality of it is terrible, I doubt it will last for more than ~25 runs tbh. The thin stamped metal is already deforming a fair bit.
Still beats a single use BBQ though. I want to make a proper brick firepit/BBQ but am not allowed 🙁
AND BAN THEM FROM APARTMENT BUILDINGS!!! Thanks I love closing my windows on the hottest day of the year.
Good, I’ve seen too many beautiful natural areas burnt down by these things. It’s not about the waste, it’s about the fire mismanagement.
Good they’re pretty shite and horrific for the environment