Copper: Next to be banned?

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maximus otter

maximus otter

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A cynic - unlike me :rolleyes: - might believe that the restrictions on bullets containing lead were just the next click of the garrotte around shooters' necks; and once we'd all been forced onto copper, that would be the next material to be banned...

"According to our latest research, in the UK we bin or stash away 627 million cables – enough to go to the moon AND BACK!

But did you know those cables are full of precious copper which, if recycled, could meet the UK’s growing demand of copper needed in our green future?! And with copper becoming more scarce, demand soaring, and the detrimental environmental and social impacts of mining for raw materials – how can we all help?"

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maximus otter
 
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willie_gunn said:
They are not talking of banning copper, but putting more effort into recycling it.
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Yes, because it's allegedly: "...becoming more scarce, demand soaring, and the detrimental environmental and social impacts of mining for raw materials..."

So who's going to get first dibs on the "scarce, expensive, environmentally-damaging" copper, shooters? I don't think so.

maximus otter
 
It hasn’t stopped them putting that very finite resource of Helium into party balloons and disappearing into space, when it is absolutely crucial to the operation of MRI scanners.
 
Mungo said:
Surely not long before it becomes profitable to mine old landfill?
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A guy tried to do that because his girlfriend had binned his Bitcoin hard drive worth billions, the council said NO!
He offered to pay for the work and said the council could have half the value of the crypto, but still they said NO! 🙄
 
Len the dog said:
A guy tried to do that because his girlfriend had binned his Bitcoin hard drive worth billions, the council said NO!
He offered to pay for the work and said the council could have half the value of the crypto, but still they said NO! 🙄
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I read earlier this week that he has instructed a legal team to sue the council to allow him access. Madness. Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack. Suppose it is worth hundreds of millions of quid but it would be comedy if they found it and it was not recoverable due to some sort of corruption.
 
maximus otter said:
A cynic - unlike me :rolleyes: - might believe that the restrictions on bullets containing lead were just the next click of the garrotte around shooters' necks; and once we'd all been forced onto copper, that would be the next material to be banned...

"According to our latest research, in the UK we bin or stash away 627 million cables – enough to go to the moon AND BACK!

But did you know those cables are full of precious copper which, if recycled, could meet the UK’s growing demand of copper needed in our green future?! And with copper becoming more scarce, demand soaring, and the detrimental environmental and social impacts of mining for raw materials – how can we all help?"

International E-Waste Day 2025 - The Great Cable Challenge - Recycle Your Electricals

International E-Waste Day is on 14 October 2023 - find out how you can join fellow recyclers and save old electricals from becoming waste.
www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk

maximus otter
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it's just arranging the deck chairs on the titanic , we are wasting our time with piffling nonsense as the ship sinks
 
Are we perhaps misunderstanding one another? I’m referring to the gilding metal cup used to encase the lead core in the majority of rifle bullets.

The point I’m trying to make to the OP is that, to the extent copper might be restricted for use in bullets, that’s a problem whether or not we’re forced to give up lead - at least for high velocity rifles that don’t/can’t use ‘solid’ lead bullets of the type used in the 22LR and some pistol cartridges, old rifle cartridges etc
 
Apropos copper, deeper dive;

Getting more scarce, not ballistically efficient, certainly not enough for any mythical 'transition', no less toxic than the lead found in conventional but ballistically superior and more humane lead core bullets for deer culling. It's compounds of lead that are dangerous, not the lead itself. Lead styphnate in every copper or lead tipped squib is more toxic than the lead bullet. #hypocrisy

 
The government is currently incentivising and promoting deer control, funding deer management and equipment and training.
Why do the certain few members on the sd continually find reasons it’s all about to be banned and come to a catastrophic end? It’s a job that’s widely acknowledged that needs to be done.
 
Acm said:
Why do the certain few members on the sd continually find reasons it’s all about to be banned and come to a catastrophic end?
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Because a thread discussing how the price of copper bullets might be going up because of supply and demand wouldn't garner much interest? ;)

Chicken-little-3.webp
 
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