Wishing that disposable BBQs were banned fully

Disposable barbecue are banned in my national park and I’m sure that you can’t sell them either

I completely agree OP, we live by the coast and from now until about September there’ll be weekly bin fires (at best) around the beaches. We have an inexpensive portable BBQ. Great for the beach, stands on legs so doesn’t heat the sand, and putting it back in the car to go home certainly sharpens the mind about making sure it is fully out and cool before leaving.

ETA: we live in a flat without our own outside space . Our portable BBQ lives on top of the fridge in summer and is stored away through the winter.

I think they have their uses. It's irresponsible people who cause the problem with them.
DS used one when he was at Uni living in a student house with a back yard. The housemates had an impromptu BBQ using one. No one was going to have or buy a proper BBQ grill as a student.

Apart from a gram or two of plastic film, what needs to go to landfill? The trays and grill are made of easily reusable aluminium and steel. The charcoal turns to dust.

I use them the picnic tables at then beach have a bbq shelf. Brilliant for hot dogs and then marshmallows and puts off the local midgie population helped with a squirt of citronella. I clean after myself. I really don’t think we should consistently shift along because there are idiots. Punish the idiots, education etc.

I helped give first aid to a toddler last summer who’d burnt his feet after a disposable bbq was used on a beach. The bbq had been moved away but had left a scorching hot patch of sand. Absolutely awful 😢.

The only time I've ever used them is to provide veggies/vegan with a separate meat free grill when I've had bbq parties at home. I don't have space (or want to spend the money on) a second reusable bbq for the garden. So I guess the non meat eaters can either go hungry, or put up with animal fat splatters on their vegan sausages and vegeburgers.

We don't need to ban disposable bbqs, we need to ban irresponsible idiots.

Hate them. Use them in your garden if you must. But don't take them into the countryside.

Utterly sick of our beautiful moorland burning to ash because someone fancies a half-cooked sausage. Every walk we spot another 'wild camp' remains and a tinfoil BBQ.

Well considering that I don't have children (and all the unecessary waste that comes with rearing them), I think my 1 or 2 disposable bbqs per year are hardly going to cause a global issue!

Without disposable bbqs, I’d buy the £12 wee one and a bag of charcoals then bin all that for the once a year bbq I have 🤷🏻‍♀️

Well the alternative is filling landfill with completely unnecessary rubbish and continuing to sell a fire hazard and general nuisance, so yes, I guess if they can’t store one in their flat or borrow one then they wouldn’t be able to bbq. No great loss.

So someone should never be able to bbq because of where they live?! WTF!

I agree with this.

Of course you need to be sensible when and where you use them due to fire risk and avoiding being a nuisance to other people. And it goes without saying that you take all the mess home with you afterwards.

It would be a shame to ban anything that people enjoy just because a few selfish idiots cause problems.

We haven't used one in a while but one of the last times was on a near deserted beach with a big flat rock to put the BBQ on. Used sand afterwards to put out the fire and when it was cool put everything in a bag to bring home. Nobody would have known.

I’d ban most single use versions of durable goods (see also ridiculously cheap festival tents), so yes, disposable bbqs would definitely be on my list. There’s no need for them - if you can’t be bothered to clean a proper bbq or you rent a flat with no space or whatever then just don’t bbq. It’s not a necessity. Eat something else.

We've had them a couple of times on the beach , on holiday. The last time was at a tiny, pebble beach with barely anyone there. We took everything away with us
That was 3 years ago so if they were banned I doubt I'd miss it too much

I have used them many times. When used by a competent cook they are perfectly capable of cooking meat safely.

I'd ban them. You can get portable bbqs including gas ones of you don't fancy making a fire. I suspect that would stop the scum with their supermarket carrier bags that head out to ruin the countryside for everyone whenever the sun comes out.

I live in a national park and fucking hate them. Mostly because they are left behind. I collect and dispose of at least half a dozen a week during the summer.

Unless (like me) you live in a flat with no outside space.

I use disposable BBQs probably once or twice a year, and that's at the beach. Of course I dispose of it correctly once I'm done with it.

I agree with other posters - it's down to the person using one, and like all things, you have a few idiots that spoil it for everyone else.

Absolutely agree.

Even if you are renting, nothing stops you from having a proper barbecue.

These things are not needed, and cause too many problems. No one needs to have barbecue in public places, or they can campaign and fund public bbq, like Australia and many places have them.

I really hate disposable bbq's, they are such a waste of resources because the whole thing is binned, and not necessarily by the purchaser. Any single use item is just wasteful.

Buy a reusable bbq, and a bag of charcoal, and do it properly.

I wouldn't even call them a BBQ, disgusting things that can't even cook meat safely, I'd love to know how many people get food poisening from under cooked chicken done on those things. And yes big fire risk.

I'm with you @Cornercandy .

It's not much more to buy a folding one. They are terrible in every way for the environment.

Kids have ended up badly burned from running over them when idiots bury them on the beach.

They cook your food badly as well because they rarely heat evenly. I'm not a fan.