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  • Graeme C.
    • Apr 2018
    • 1628
    • Graeme
    • UK

    #1

    Plastic Hoarding

    I heard on the radio today, that 62% of people hoard plastic items in drawers etc.
    I'm looking at my stash with some concern.......
  • Airborne01
    • Mar 2021
    • 4097
    • Steve
    • Essex

    #2
    I can confirm I have no plastic in my drawers - I'm not quite old enough for underwear linings! How blessed I am to be one of the 38%

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    • minitnkr
      SMF Supporters
      • Apr 2018
      • 7614
      • Paul
      • Dayton, OH USA

      #3
      Keep forgetting to recycle the box of sprue under the bench, so guilty I guess.

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      • Tim Marlow
        SMF Supporters
        • Apr 2018
        • 18994
        • Tim
        • Somerset UK

        #4
        62%, wow! Didn’t know there were that many modellers around :tongue-out3:

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        • Guest

          #5
          Originally posted by Tim Marlow
          62%, wow! Didn’t know there were that many modellers around :tongue-out3:
          This was a poll done in Japan, I guess

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          • dalej2014
            SMF Supporters
            • Aug 2021
            • 507

            #6
            On the plus side that's lots of plastic not in the sea, so... Go modellers! Saving the planet, a kit at a time

            As an added observation, as previously mentioned, if they're catalogued, you're not hoarding, you're collecting.

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            • Isitme
              • Nov 2020
              • 795

              #7
              Originally posted by Graeme C.
              I heard on the radio today, that 62% of people hoard plastic items in drawers etc.
              I'm looking at my stash with some concern.......
              Well, the answer is simple - buy bigger draws :tears-of-joy:

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              • Isitme
                • Nov 2020
                • 795

                #8
                Originally posted by dalej2014
                On the plus side that's lots of plastic not in the sea, so... Go modellers! Saving the planet, a kit at a time

                As an added observation, as previously mentioned, if they're catalogued, you're not hoarding, you're collecting.
                So you never watched the David Attenborough documentary where he lambasts us all about the plastic in the sea. As he could not find any plastic, the gofer was sent off to purchase a dozen of those bright yellow plastic ducks that you have in the bath. They were promptly put into the sea and were bobbing about happily while David did his thing - filming finished - everyone cleared off to the bar - and the ducks were seen happily floating of to the horizon.....

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                • Isitme
                  • Nov 2020
                  • 795

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Airborne01
                  I can confirm I have no plastic in my drawers - I'm not quite old enough for underwear linings! How blessed I am to be one of the 38%
                  Its the noise the plastic in your drawers makes when you move around, always think someone is following me :surprised:.

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                  • dalej2014
                    SMF Supporters
                    • Aug 2021
                    • 507

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Isitme
                    So you never watched the David Attenborough documentary where he lambasts us all about the plastic in the sea. As he could not find any plastic, the gofer was sent off to purchase a dozen of those bright yellow plastic ducks that you have in the bath. They were promptly put into the sea and were bobbing about happily while David did his thing - filming finished - everyone cleared off to the bar - and the ducks were seen happily floating of to the horizon.....
                    Absolutely. Loved that documentary. Powerful stuff. In fact, been mostly vegetarian since watching it. As for the plastic though - imagine if we recycled all that plastic into model kits!

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                    • Guest

                      #11
                      Originally posted by dalej2014
                      imagine if we recycled all that plastic into model kits!
                      We’d have kits we couldn’t build because nothing will stick together the plastic they’re made from?

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