New Stove what to choose

[rucksack]

Pierced or not Ron, I strongly suspect that they end up as landfill in Australia, unless you know something different. They can be pierced and they 'can' be recycled, but I doubt that actually happens anywhere here. I am happy to be corrected and I am not arguing for one fuel over another here, but merely to prick the PR puff about fuel canisters being recycled in Australia. I have 12 stoves, almost all in regular use and they traverse most of the bushwalking fuel 'spectrum', but I have yet to read that the regular recycling of gas canisters and cartridges is actually happening in Australia. Do you know more?

rucksack

[RonK]

Pierced or not Ron, I strongly suspect that they end up as landfill in Australia, unless you know something different. They can be pierced and they 'can' be recycled, but I doubt that actually happens anywhere here. I am happy to be corrected and I am not arguing for one fuel over another here, but merely to prick the PR puff about fuel canisters being recycled in Australia. I have 12 stoves, almost all in regular use and they traverse most of the bushwalking fuel 'spectrum', but I have yet to read that the regular recycling of gas canisters and cartridges is actually happening in Australia. Do you know more?

rucksack

No more than I know about the other glass, aluminium, plastic, and steel containers I put in my recycling bin.

The extent to which any of these materials is actually recycled is not widely publicised.

My initial concerns with gas canisters was about their safe disposal. The point is simply that gas canisters can be safely disposed of by piercing them and sending to the recycler.

However I doubt they end up in landfill - there is no reason they would not be treated as any other aerosol can, which are recycled despite the hydrocarbon propellants they contain.

[Gadgetgeek]

Steel and aluminum are the most often recycled materials as they are economically advantageous. Steel is easy to separate, since it can be sorted magnetically. and aluminum takes something like only 5% of the energy to recycle than it does to smelt originally. Glass takes just as much energy to melt the second time, and due to colorants is not really usable for bottles the second time. Some gets turned into fiberglass batt insulation, but just as often its new material that does. And of course we all know the story with plastic.

I think a whisperlite is always worth fixing, but I am a convert to gas, liquid fuel is better when you need it, but gas is so good.

[Strider]

Scouts1 there is an MSR pump and other parts for sale at the link below.

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[scouts1]

I went with the Jetboil Flash after a friend suggested not getting the Jetboil with the piezo which has given him problems.
The scouts thought it was great last weekend.
They certainly boil water very quickly, but before I give it the big tick lets see how it goes over April on the AAWT leg Kiandra to Tharwa.