Comments on: Eco Brolly

By: Eco Products

Eco Products — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:07:48 +0000

What a unique idea, recycling newspapers in a useful way, makes you think what else can be done with all those millions of newspapers printed every day!

By: susie

susie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:22:19 +0000

It’s fantastic!!! Love it!!

Why would u want to carry a heavy umbrella? if this is so compact?

By: DOJ

DOJ — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:41:14 +0000

looks flimsy
and the best re-use of a newspaper is folding it back up and putting it back on the stack

By: sw

sw — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:40:10 +0000

i love the idea, but it’s not so eco when you’re taking a newspaper out of the dispenser, not reading it, soaking it through, and throwing it away.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:26:54 +0000

Well, if you had spent more time thinking about the answers to this question (how much did you spend? none?) there are obvious advantages, e.g. portability (it’s very small, smaller than any umbrella I’ve ever seen, when stowed), has eco cred whether deserved or not (I say it is, but I won’t argue that, because is largely irrelevant, because if nothing else it is inspiring to see creative recycling, and recycling should invade everything about our way of life… it has too if we are to supply 6.5 billion hairless apes with needed goods), and finally, as the above post pointed out (I didn’t even think of that one right off, but it is a major point; kudos) you can discard the dripping part of the umbrella before going inside.
These seem obvious to me after mere seconds of reflection. Not so much to you?

By: Leokins

Leokins — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:22:41 +0000

I think it would probably take a lot less space than a regular umbrella as it doesn’t have to pack a bunch of fabric, just the collapsible pole. cool idea

By: alice

alice — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:20:42 +0000

Just to point out, that a lot of bus companies give out free newspapers over here. Not just in London. I’m near the middle of the country and I’m still getting my crappy free newspaper every bus ride!

By: wpdunn71901

wpdunn71901 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:02:35 +0000

This, of course, begs, the question: if you want to carry something, why not carry a regular umbrella in the first place?

Doing that defeats the Eco-freaks useless feel-goodism

By: Seventh

Seventh — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:56:45 +0000

I quite like the idea, as when you get to your destination you can just bin the soggy newspaper, instead of having a wet umbrella dripping over everything.

Also: where is Britan? And I’m having trouble finding a definition of this unfamiliar word ‘espeically’…