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A friend and I met over the weekend and we got chatting about Weston beach race and noticed that lots of riders used tear offs. It got us both thinking that you have upwards of 1000 riders using 20+ tear offs over the course of 3 hours, so that’s approximately 20000+ tear offs getting washed into the sea when the tide comes in.
Yes I know that not every rider uses tear offs but even if half of the riders did that’s still a hell of a lot of plastic, so I looked into rules of the event to see if they enforced any restrictions on tears offs and possibly the riders were just ignoring any rules set. Unfortunately there was no mention.
Weston isn’t the only beach race out there, there are other major beach races like Le Touquet and Red Bull knockout to name a few, just thought it would be a good idea to raise awareness on this as surely I’m not the only person who thinks this is crazy and can’t continue.
With the subject of plastic in our oceans at an all time high I just thought it would looked good for our sport to do the good deed and ban them?
Thoughts????
Yes I know that not every rider uses tear offs but even if half of the riders did that’s still a hell of a lot of plastic, so I looked into rules of the event to see if they enforced any restrictions on tears offs and possibly the riders were just ignoring any rules set. Unfortunately there was no mention.
Weston isn’t the only beach race out there, there are other major beach races like Le Touquet and Red Bull knockout to name a few, just thought it would be a good idea to raise awareness on this as surely I’m not the only person who thinks this is crazy and can’t continue.
With the subject of plastic in our oceans at an all time high I just thought it would looked good for our sport to do the good deed and ban them?
Thoughts????
You can run roll-offs or just nothing.
Redbull knockout is no exception.
No tear offs.
Being environmentally friendly and competing in any motorsport doesn't exactly go hand in hand. This is actually something that's been on my mind a lot lately. I feel like the biggest issue for the dirt bike crowd itself is that most of enthusiast are ignorant to the issues.
The Shop
Is 1 mile off shore all Garbage goes overboard, finish a bottle of mountain dew ,throw it in the ocean etc ,thats what they are told to do . i was shocked to hear that and a bit horrified , but if the whole us Military is doing that
Imagine how much Garbage that is.
He said they have to do that or they would have to much Garbage is what he was told but still in this day and age you would think there has to be a better way.
I was on a ship for 3 years and currently work on enforcing maritime pollution laws.
My thought is that China and India polluting the oceans is FAR worse than tear offs.
Have you made any posts on Chinese or Indian forums in an effort to encourage them to stop MASSIVE pollution?
And I’ve wrote on a MX forum as it’s my sport and want it too look good to the outside world.
To be fair to India they do have some good practices, like their use of a plastic based tarmac for roads. Hell, that doesn't even happen in the UK and we're supposed to be environmentally conscious.
Pit Row
https://resource.co/article/recycled-plastic-road-surface-trialled-enfi…
Of course, it would take a Scottish company to bring this product to the market
You are on here talking about tear offs. Check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSXB-lRAp0
.kyle, 50% of Indian households don't have a toilet. Please read up.
I am glad you children care, but giving someone a dreaded "thumb down" on the internet won't stop all the polluting going on.
Merida, the plastic he spoke of is buried in the ground, not melted.
Maybe some of you youngsters can go pick up the used tear offs? You all are going to have an early heart attack with all that worrying.
You also get paid by oil companies?
On the topic though. There's really no reason why they shouldn't be banned. Sure they are nice and all but it's not hard to see the difference in pulling a tear-off and it ending up in the beach/on the track/in nature compared to using a roll off and recycling it in a proper manner.
oh no it is obviously fake news.
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