And now...?
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Topic: And now...?
Posted By: busymum
Subject: And now...?
Date 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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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 8:45pm
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Ah, good question - I have no idea! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 8:45pm
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blow it up.
sorry  seems like such a waste to throw it away though, doesn't it!------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 8:53pm
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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?? ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:04pm
Give it to the What Now guys that do the big crunch or blow up thing on TV every Sunday morning. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
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meow wrote:Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:06pm
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Inorganic collection? ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:10pm
I'm loving this idea  ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date 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... |
Posted By: ginger
Date 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. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:36pm
| I am a give to womens refuge fan....and so encourage others to do same...!!! |
Posted By: nictoddie
Date 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 By: yummymummy
Date 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. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 12:15pm
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Good question??? I love the What Now idea lol ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 12:24pm
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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  ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: ShellandBella
Date 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 ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 03 June 2007 at 8:33pm
| 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... |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 12:31pm
that's the first thing that came to mind ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: emz
Date 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)? |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:34pm
| 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 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 10:44pm
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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 ) ------------- |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 10 June 2007 at 9:27am
Please oh pleaseohpleaseohplease Pick me to do it!!! pretty please? mememe! ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 10 June 2007 at 10:00am
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I have an issue with the expiry date situation. When I was looking for a baby capsule for Alyssa I went to Baby Factory and every single one of the brand new capsules was already 3 years old according to the manufacture date...and this was reflected by the expiry date stamped as well. I ended up buying one from Baby City which was less than a year old.
Anyway, my point is...if any of the baby capsules was sitting around any of these stores for the whole 10 years, are we saying they should be thrown away??!! I understand the expiry date relates to the fact that the plastic component in these seats is not guaranteed in quality after 10 years due to sun/heat damage from sitting in a car that whole time - but what if it was in the dark, in storage, surely the plastic doesn't degrade in the same way? Obviously many of us wouldn't take chances and will buy one that has not expired, but I just think there should be more clarification about it all because it really does seem a waste to throw away a perfectly good baby seat. Perhaps they have some sort of test that could check the integrity of the plastic or something? Much like gas bottles have their own WOF type check every 10 years or so... end rant. |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 10 June 2007 at 4:52pm
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I agree.
I think it's a big waste. When T talked to me about getting a new one I said (after a lengthy discussion) "it's lasted 4 years past it's expiry date anyway. What's a couple more months going to do?" (guess who won that discussion )
Personally I think the "expiry" date on those are ridiculus. It's plastic. Plastic doesn't degrade as bad as it needing an expiry date.. I'm thinking it's another example of overboard Health and Safety. where's all the excitement in life gone? dead and buried under a crapload of paperwork.... ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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