Wishing that disposable BBQs were banned fully

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A couple of summers ago, many retailers stopped selling disposable BBQs as had a hot dry summer which could be the perfect conditions to have fires.

I would like to see these permanently banned. Why? They make people have BBQs in places which aren’t allowed such as the country parks, most beaches. People leave them and the associated rubbish behind. Seen them with packs of hot dog rolls with 1-2 left, bottles of sauce with just 2-3 hot dogs worth taken. It burns the ground. Also on beaches, people have buried them and people walk on the area - causing them to have 3rd degree burns and skin grafts.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

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 😢.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I've just had one in my own back garden, so DFOD. Easy, speedy and disposable..funnily enough the whole point of it. Clutch your pearls elsewhere.

And how many people do you imagine are waiting for it to cool, separating the constituent parts, washing off the grill and pan and putting it into an appropriate recycling bin? When people are using them in parks and beaches it seems lucky if they reach a litter bin, much less being recycled.

Just shoving the whole thing in the recycling bin would contaminate the whole bin and it wouldn’t be taken by refuse collectors around here - everything has to be clean and dry. By the time you’ve done that you might as well have bought a reusable one.

So replace disposable BBQ with normal BBQ and you'd get the same result. Heat is heat but let's not get in the way of drama.

op is suggesting it’s the f***g idiots who leave them on beaches , in parks , who set dry grass on fires plus leave all sorts of crap behind

so dfod yourself, people can have a different view of them than yours

You don't say. Well tickle my tits until Friday, in the words of the young Shirley Valentine. Please call again when you have something obvious to add.

Just because someone wants something doesn’t mean they can have it.

Barbecuing a sausage is not a human right.

😆 😆 🤣 😂 you don't say 🙄

It only takes one though to start a wild fire on somewhere like heathland habitat & the damage to rare wildlife is permanent.

We have so little left of some of these habitats, why risk it when people can have sandwiches, picnics etc. There's just no need for disposable BBQs.

Wildfires from a disposable bbq..ffs. get a grip.

Some people just don't care as is evident

Wow 🤣. Drama? What drama? Apart from you getting all hot (pardon the pun 🤭) under the collar 😆.