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busymum 
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 8:42pm |
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Now that I have a new car seat, what do I do with the old one? (It has 'expired' and shouldn't be used anymore.)
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Maya
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 8:45pm |
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Ah, good question - I have no idea!
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 8:45pm |
blow it up.
sorry  seems like such a waste to throw it away though, doesn't it!
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 8:53pm |
hehe! blowing it up could be interesting.... 
Or you could phone a place like Plunket car seat hire and ask what they do with their old carseats??
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:04pm |
 meow wrote:
blow it up.
sorry seems like such a waste to throw it away though, doesn't it! |
Give it to the What Now guys that do the big crunch or blow up thing on TV every Sunday morning.
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:06pm |
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Inorganic collection?
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:10pm |
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My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:32pm |
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i was just thinking the what now thing too!!! LMAO!!!
perhaps offer to refuge? they may use as an emergency one where they pick up kids esp as it hasnt been in accident etc...
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:34pm |
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That's a good idea BS ...I mean, an expired carseat is better than no carseat.
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:36pm |
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I am a give to womens refuge fan....and so encourage others to do same...!!!
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Posted: 03 June 2007 at 10:02am |
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If it is expired it should not be used regardless of being in an accident, I know it seems a waste but thems the rules. I'd ring plunket and ask how to get rid of it
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Posted: 03 June 2007 at 11:56am |
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I've read somewhere that you can take to Plunket to dispose of OR break it and then trow away so it can not be used again.
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Posted: 03 June 2007 at 12:15pm |
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Good question??? I love the What Now idea lol
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Posted: 03 June 2007 at 12:24pm |
If you couldn't Blow it up OR What Now couldn't crush it OR Plunket wouldn't take it OR You couldn't cut the straps & dump it then..
You could be like me... a chronic hoarder & keep it. Thinking of all the hours of imaginative play it would give a child.
My son has a ball with his. I turn over the small kitchen table put in the carseat, drape over a blanket, give him a steering wheel, keys & wallet & he heads to town for a few hours 
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Posted: 03 June 2007 at 8:14pm |
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It has to be destroyed. At my antenatal class we had some guy (who happens to be a cop too) from Baby on the Move talk to us about car seats. He said that when they expire he will take them off your hands and they take them to the refuse station and PHYSICALLY destroy them so they can't be used by anyone else. Its my understanding baby on the move is a business around the country...? Perhaps ring them or email them...?
http://www.babyonthemove.co.nz/index.html
Hope that helps
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Posted: 03 June 2007 at 8:33pm |
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Definitely destroy it. I was talking to CRS last weekend and asking this same question, and she suggested two things -- cut the straps up so they can't be rethreaded through the seat even if someone else gets hold of them, then take an axe to the seat and cut it at least in half. Then save it for inorganic collection. Could be a great way to release stress...
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Posted: 05 June 2007 at 12:31pm |
Maya wrote:
Give it to the What Now guys that do the big crunch or blow up thing on TV every Sunday morning. |
that's the first thing that came to mind 
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Posted: 09 June 2007 at 5:52pm |
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*Bump*
So there's no way they recertify them or anything? Seems like such a waste. And the resale on them then must be ridiculously low (especially if you have 2 kids go through it)?
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Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:34pm |
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weird how trade me lets them be onnsold after expiry too....we were looking at safe n sounds the other day and found heaps past expiry
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Posted: 09 June 2007 at 10:44pm |
I presume they melt the plastic again and re-use it that way. Am still to check things out with Plunket, I have a vague recollection that you can drop old ones off there? Anyway will be seeing them for Briona & Kryssi in a week's time so will probably ask then (if I remember )
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