Sustainable Collecting

[SMHFConvoy]

Don't throw out old figures (not that any of us would), sell them on or give them away - like the ingenious pay it forward threads - or customise them!

I do like Trev's planting of trees and plants to off set his foot print!

[kovert]

Most if not all goods have an impact on the environment. From materials to manufacturing, to distribution and purchase.

When I open up a figure that has oily paint I think about how potentially toxic the paint is. As most toys are made in China I sometimes think about about how manufacturers dispose of their waste and chemical by-products, not to mention the amount of energy required to power a factory. It's bad.

Some toys are overpackaged. For example, Lego boxes are normally twice as big as they need to be. I understand the plastic is packed with air to protect against impact but the boxes are still full of air. The current TF4 packaging seems to have reduced in size slightly. Takara Masterpiece TF packaging is slimline and fantastic. Another good example is SH Figuarts.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Watch out for Cockatoos!!
my parents have an almond tree that is about 10 metres high maybe more and of the thousands of almonds it produces every year, they have never had the opportunity to eat them as the cockies get to them long before they are ripe/edible

Probably the air cannons the idiot over our back fenceline has running non-stop in the summer and autum will keep them at bay One of our almond tree's is only 2 years old and we already getting stuff off it - I didn't realise that they start off as big furry pods!

When we first moved in I was entranced to come out and see all these white cockatoos sitting on the fence above my strawberry patches - it was less facinating when I realised that they were biting all the bright blue drippers out of the pipe and wrecking the hose!

I do like Trev's planting of trees and plants to off set his foot print!

We've found in our little front paddock about 40 tiny Acacia trees that had sprung up from seeds blowing from the block next door. Instead of ripping them up I've put a dose of sheepshit around the base of each one and staked them so I can see where they are - should have a nice little native tree grove there in a few years The two doz I planted out the back to be wind/sound guards are varaints of bottlebrush, wattle, gum etc.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

As for large travel, I don't pay extra cash to airlines to reduce the carbon footprint of my flight, that's rubbish. I can't trust them to actually plant a tree and I can't see the point.

Totally agree. Carbon offset is complete BS. Usually you'll find that all they have done is bought a grove of trees and that's where your 'money' goes. The trees were there in the first place and would 'offset carbon' regardless. That sort of thing just makes me angry and I feel sorry for people who pay for it as they are being ripped off

Takara Masterpiece TF packaging is slimline and fantastic.

I disagree here. Takara masterpiece packaging is atrocious. Take Soundblaster Soundwave as an example. Had they packed them in cassette mode they could have made it a lot smaller.

Rodimus was another one, but his trailer was darn huge, so as much as I would have liked to have seen it smaller, I dunno how they'd do it.

The worst I recall was Darth Vader Death Star. Double the size it needed to be as he was packed in robot mode, but they had a scale sized death start mode cutout next to him. WHAAAT?

Back on topic though, I've thought about it and chuck unwanted card backs/bubble in the recycle bins for them to get recycled into whatever, but that's as far as it goes really. I try and reduce my environmental damage in other ways, such as not wasting water/electricity.

there was a show on SBS where they went into houses and assessed it's overall environmental destructive capabilities. I would have loved to been on it.

Hmm, before we enter this collection room, I need to ask for a realaxation of judgement as it's a wall to wall room of plastic, metal and shiny paint.

It is however INCREDIBLY AWESOME!

[kovert]

I disagree here. Takara masterpiece packaging is atrocious.

Agreed - the early MP releases have very big boxes. I have only two MP releases and didn't realise how big the other boxes really were. Still, the boxes for recent Autobot cars such as Lambor, Prowl, Wheeljack have been nice and compact.