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Posted on 07/12/2010 2:06:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
What will become of all those millions of vuvuzelas now that the World Cup is over? The answer is they are likely to be recycled into plastic park benches and buckets, according to Barry Turner of the Plastics 2020 Challenge
“Many people have come to wish good riddance on the dreaded vuvuzela and I am happy to confirm that their wishes can come true as the instrument is completely recyclable so it need not end up in landfill,” said Turner.
“This is just as well as according to the manufacturers over 800,000 were sold in South Africa and up to one and a half million more in Europe.”
The HDPE trumpets are easily recycled, and according to the South Africa’s Plastics Convertors Association, the country’s recycling industry is ready to take on the challenge thanks to its well-developed recycling infrastructure.
Mike Bullock, former executive officer and now consultant to the Plastics Convertors Association, said: “The vuvuzela has become a symbol of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and many that have been purchased will be kept as souvenirs for years to come.
“However, those that are discarded will end up South Africa’s well managed private sector waste system and will be collected long before they enter any landfill site because the material is too valuable to waste.”
I find this current vuvuzela 'fad' being referred to as 'new' rather comical, as I can recall very clearly the exact same type of horn at Major League Baseball games in the early 70's ... I even had one!
I don't remember whether I got mine at a Mets or Yankees game, but it was the exact same thing --- plastic (blue) starting out as a trumpet-like mouthpiece which was 'spit' into, then tapering for 2' into a small 4" bell horn on the far end. Same exact thing.
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Great. You’re sitting around in your back yard on your new, recycled plastic chairs, and the peace and quiet are shattered by your chairs starting to buzz annoyingly at the slightest breeze.
Yeah, I’m in.
At least it’ll drown out those damn wind chimes.
Which reminds me...need to change my tagline.
I’ll just go back to the old standby for now.
What? How can you say that? The vuvuzela is the ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people. Wideawake says so!
I've never wanted to shoot someone because they were using a hula hoop! :-)
Oh. My.
Obviously the baseball team in question stole the design from the Zulu. The vuvuzela is the ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people. Wideawake says so!
Sad... I found their monotonous droning to be a perfect alternative to 0bama’s monotonous droning.
Zo. You don’t like ze vind chimess? I won’t expose you to my colleczion zen.
Can they get any more juvenile?
Why, in Houston, we were so poor they only gave us 'clickers' as show promotions:
I can't find a picture, they were a piece of plastic (with a logo on one side) and then a small piece of metal on the other side (maybe sandwiched between plastic) that you could click with your thumb.
I wonder if 1.3million clickers can create more of a din than 1.3million vuvuzelas.
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