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So here's a Q...why don't dairys have reusable plastic bottles? There must a reason(s).
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So Richie Sunak has been fined for being in the back of a car without a seatbelt! Naughty boy! Everyone knows that you're a risk to the person in front in an accident if you're not wearing a seat belt. Is he fit to run the country if he can't even follow basic safety rules?
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Lots of knobheads all over the place slagging off the PM for going a few minutes without seat belt.

None of them have obviously never broken any driving laws.
Speeding? No. They're all perfect :D
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:01 am So here's a Q...why don't dairys have reusable plastic bottles? There must a reason(s).
One v.good reason would be that they can't be cleaned economically.
You could use glass bottles , but you would need a nationwide system to deliver and collect them to individual houses, and that would never work.
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Yorick wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:18 am Lots of knobheads all over the place slagging off the PM for going a few minutes without seat belt.

None of them have obviously never broken any driving laws.
Speeding? No. They're all perfect :D
Aye, knobheads the lot of them. Wonder if any of them are creepy old men who would post the details of a young females facebook page in a motorbike forums 'random photos' thread, though? That would be being a knobhead.
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David wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:19 am
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:01 am So here's a Q...why don't dairys have reusable plastic bottles? There must a reason(s).
One v.good reason would be that they can't be cleaned economically.
You could use glass bottles , but you would need a nationwide system to deliver and collect them to individual houses, and that would never work.
Not until you've got a reliable EV for all those door to door stops!
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:01 am So here's a Q...why don't dairys have reusable plastic bottles? There must a reason(s).
Melting point of HDPE is only 125ºC

It goes very soft way before then, you wouldn't be able to sterilise the bottle.

It does raise a question about introducing so much plastic into the human food chain though. It's really not good for you!
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ZRX61 wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:48 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:01 pm It does seem like a losing battle sometimes, but the general populace only have themselves to blame IMO.

Milk is a good example. If everyone had said "you know what? I'm actually gonna keep buying milk in reusable glass bottles and bollox to the supermarket" there'd still be loads of milkmen wouldn't there? I can see why you wouldn't do that, Supermarkets are cheap, but that's the reality innit?
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I don't want to waste money and energy doing pointless things just because they sound good to Greta, but I do want to reduce packaging waste.
That said I'm not sure the UK bottle deposit thing is a good idea, instead of putting them into my recycling bin I'm going to have to take my rubbish back to the supermarket.
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Yorick wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:18 am Lots of knobheads all over the place slagging off the PM for going a few minutes without seat belt.

None of them have obviously never broken any driving laws.
Speeding? No. They're all perfect :D

You have to sorta question the blokes savvy when he actually films himself doing a crime and posts it for the world to see :P
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:38 am
Not until you've got a reliable EV for all those door to door stops!
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There's a company which uses an old R reg milk float....what's that, mid 70s?....round my way. I see it on the 70mph grid roads in rush hour, merrily trundling along at 19mph :lol:

The young guy driving even has a white coat and peaked hat.
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Count Steer wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:19 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:38 am
Not until you've got a reliable EV for all those door to door stops!
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We use still use a similar version of those but with a high top and tailift for transporting stuff around site.
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Aren't a lot of airside vehicles electric, including all the baggage tugs? I think even some of the high torque ones may be.
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BA use driverless electric tugs with some of their planes. Double whammy of modern.
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Gregor wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:15 pm
Yorick wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:18 am Lots of knobheads all over the place slagging off the PM for going a few minutes without seat belt.

None of them have obviously never broken any driving laws.
Speeding? No. They're all perfect :D

You have to sorta question the blokes savvy when he actually films himself doing a crime and posts it for the world to see :P
So far as I'm aware, it was a fixed penalty notice which isn't classed as a criminal offence.
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Gregor wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:15 pm
You have to sorta question the blokes savvy when he actually films himself doing a crime and posts it for the world to see :P
It's a bit like doing a helmet cam of 170mph and popping wheelies on your way to work and posting it up for the world to see. :D

(Well, apart from being Prime Minister, obvs. I don't suppose he's very good at wheelies, he probably has a stunt double for that sort of thing).
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Maybe it's just an age/generation/something else thing, but for me going in a car without a seatbelt is like wearing shoes on the wrong feet or writing with your non dominant hand. It just feels immediately wrong and 'off'. I don't think I could ever do it by mistake.
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Last year some 17yo bloke in LA deliberately ran over a young mum & her kid in a stroller. It was caught on video.
The guy crashed & was hauled off. Our wonderful shitstain of a DA gave him a slap on the wrist & he was back on the streets around New Year.

Karma found the guy last night. Someone walked up to him in Palmdale & executed the fucker.
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Screwdriver wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:34 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:01 am So here's a Q...why don't dairys have reusable plastic bottles? There must a reason(s).
Melting point of HDPE is only 125ºC

It goes very soft way before then, you wouldn't be able to sterilise the bottle.

It does raise a question about introducing so much plastic into the human food chain though. It's really not good for you!
Doesn't have to be HDPE though.

Back when I worked in stoodent bars we had placcy pint glasses which went through the really hot dishwasher.

More recently, baby Ds bottles were plastic and they got sterilised in the microwave using steam.

Must be other reasons you can't/don't use placcy refillable milk bottles.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:43 pm BA use driverless electric tugs with some of their planes. Double whammy of modern.
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Couple of years ago, Oxbotica (UK AV systems developer) had IIRC on the same day automated vehicles running on-road, airside, in a quarry and in a mine.

It was 2018 when they trialled airside at Gatwick.
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