A word about charcoal

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Toddy

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Call it something catchy, and using words like *green*, *environmentally sustainable*, *managed native woodlands*, double the price and beat out the multi nationals :D
Much better than leaving all those little foil BBQ trays littering the landscape :cool:

cheers,
M
 
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I agree that "green-washing" can often increase the price of a product - even when it's complete rubbish - take those "eco fuel magnets" sold by a number of big supposedly green concerns for instance. Discredited as pointless all over the world but still banged out at £20 a time or whatever. Had a big argument on the subject with the head of one such outfit on another forum and he was threatening all sorts of legal action and so on - but never took any funnily enough - wonder why that was??

The other problem of course is that the people who do leave those little foil trays all over the place - and I've picked up dozens along the canal - are unlikely to have the faintest interest in "doing the right thing", and so are unlikely to give it a try. Sad - but true.

Andy
 

Toddy

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True, true, but if something like a shorter version, or even a half log version of the firelog looked *cool* and was available, they might go for that instead. At least then it would be biodegradable.
:dunno: the answer to the littering lot.

cheers,
Toddy
 

fred gordon

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I've tried the fire log and it works very well, up to a point. Be very careful if you decide to boil a kettle on one, as I did. One of the 'legs; burned through much faster than the others and a kettle of scalding water fell off. Fortunately no-one was close at the time, but it could have been nasty.

On the subject of charcoal I was given a bag of rhododendron charcoal a few years ago and it worked quite well. Seemed like a great idea for getting something useful out of all the rhoddy bashing that goes on. Some interesting comments here:

http://www.wildresources.co.uk/reports/rhodo_eng.pdf :)
 

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