The choice between striking a match or using a disposable lighter does not seem like a difficult or worrying decision for consumers. It is easy to use what is on hand at the time without really thinking about any of the consequences it has. When consumers do not think about these decisions, it shows how these simple choices we make can have negative effects on the environment. Sustainable matches are easily recyclable and biodegradable.
Unlike lighters, matches are made from wood or paper, which is easily biodegradable. Because they are biodegradable, they won’t contribute to the growing waste problem in the world. The most common type of wood matches are made from aspen or white pine. Each tree can create hundreds of thousands of match sticks. For an interesting read on the history of matches, try Prelude to the American Match Industry Story.
Full sized lighters can burn up to an hour. These lighters eventually run out and are turned to be thrown away. Once a lighter is disposed, it will exist in our environment forever. After they are disposed, these lighters will be either thrown into landfills, on the streets, or swept into the ocean. Once these lighters are disposed into the ocean, they will easily be mistaken by fish for birds to eat. One type of bird that is strongly affected by pollution is the Laysan Albatross bird. This bird catches fish by skimming the water with its beak. While doing this, it picks up other debris and plastic from the ocean. In this article about the Layman Albatross birds, there are images showing that they have consumed disposable lighters. This will kill them quickly, once eaten.
While it isn’t a pressing decision whether to use a match or a lighter, it is an easy choice. Matches are usually free and can be found in a lot of different restaurants and stores. This makes them even more accessible than lighters for people. Highly engaged community convenience stores like Wawa and Sheetz, give away the books for free to their loyal customers who may prefer a recyclable match to the plastic lighter. Take the match.
The sustainability of matches over lighters can tremendously improve how the environment is affected. Matches are biodegradable and environmentally friendly, which makes them an easy choice over a lighter. They are also produced in the USA, which means a smaller carbon footprint over imported disposable lighters. To learn more about the match industry and the last match factory in America read more blogs on the DDBean website.
Eliza Smith is a guest blogger and a student intern. She is studying Business at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She loves the beach at Sullivan’s Island, and was inspired to write this blog about the impact of plastic on the oceans and the willingness to make a better choice for the environment.
Unlike plastic lighters, matches are made from wood and are fully biodegradable. Being biodegradable, matches generally don't contribute to our growing global waste problem, but their production comes with a different set of environmental problems.
While matches can work in a pinch, they tend to have smaller flames and can be harder to use. Lighters produce a larger and stronger flame that will get your wick burning quickly. Plus, the adjustable gas nozzle on many lighters allows you to customize the size of the flame for even better control.
One of the easiest match-free ways to start a fire is to use flint and steel. Flint and steel kits can be purchased relatively inexpensively and are easy to start a fire with if you have a tinder kit, especially if your tinder kit includes charcloth.
Unfortunately, they're really wasteful. accepted by many recycling centers due to the materials used (a mix of plastic and metal) and their hazardous nature, 350 million lighters wind up in landfills every year. eaten by wildlife. Many have been found in the stomachs of birds and other animals.
Lighters might be convenient, but they are wasteful. If you think about it, all it takes to start a fire is a spark. You can have an open flame with a match and hold it for almost a whole minute. A lighter has no cutoff except running out of fuel, so you have to check its fuel level constantly.
The making of the wooden matches does involve the destruction of trees, which will lead to deforestation, even though they are environmentally friendly. Meanwhile, Lighters are made up of plastics and glass and contain fuel, which will cause more pollution and result in excess landfills.
A match is also a tool. It can be used the right way, or a wrong way. Using a match to light a barbecue, start a fire in the fireplace, or ignite the pilot light on the water heater, are proper ways to use a match.
Simply strike the match on the striker strip and hold the flame to the end of the cigarette while inhaling. Utilize a stove or oven [1]: If you have a gas or electric stove, you can light a cigarette by holding the end of the cigarette over the burner until it begins to glow.
They have remained particularly popular in the United States, even when safety matches had become common in Europe, and are still widely used today around the world, including in many developing countries, for such uses as camping, outdoor activities, emergency/survival situations, and stocking homemade survival kits.
Matches and lighters are not toys. Children are naturally curious and it is normal to want to explore, but fire is dangerous. Note that most fires caused by children playing with lighters and matches begin in bedrooms.
High demand long time over a very led to mass-scale production(in order to meet supplies), thereby less prices. Less Cost of Production: A safety-match needs wood, red-phosphorus, some other chemicals in trace amounts and paper. All of these are cheap. They have not been cheap since time immemorial.
Ecofire Strike-A-Lite Firelighters are the eco-alternative to conventional firelighters and will not only get your fire started with ease, but are better for the environment.
Volatile solvent abuse, including that due to butane gas (contained in cigarette lighter fuel), is common among young people for achieving a quick “high” because of ease of availability of cigarette lighter fuel. Butane inhalation can cause brain permanent damage due to asphyxia.
Keep it below the thing that you are trying to light. The flame will remain vertical, regardless of the angle of the lighter, and you may burn your hand if you try to hold the lighter horizontally. Keep your hand away from the flame, and from the thing that you are lighting.
LEDs use much less energy to provide the same amount of light as other forms of lighting. One of the main reasons LEDs are so efficient is that most of their energy is used to solely create light, rather than creating light and heat, as less efficient forms of lighting do.
Used matchsticks or matches cannot be recycled. Please ensure they are fully extinguished and cooled down and put them in your black general waste bin or pink sacks.
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