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Google it. There are sites in the UK

 Here you are.

http://www.bbqworld.co.uk

Have to say Alan That i disagree

My local garden centre used to do Aussie heatbeads but now only do penn beads.

They said they were the same but no way. With 7 heat beads i could cook a whole chicken in 2 hours and then dip them in water to use them for breakfast.

with the penn beads i used 10 and the chicken still wasnt cooked in 2 1/2 hours and when i dunked them in water they fell apart.

I would think about it if i had a BBQ that used them. But I have a cadac that burns campingaz and I'm ashamed to say I have never given much thought to where that comes from and what its environmental impact is. Similar to burning any other gas I suppose and therefore not that great.

I think about it a great deal with other aspects of my camping though - it's a bit blummin daft to enjoy the great outdoors and be ruining it while you're about it!

Quote: Originally posted by elanman on 10/5/2012

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Am I the only one that thinks its outrageous to buy burnt wood shaped into squares all the way from Australia! Thinks of the carbon footprint. I try to get local charcoal and burn it in my Webber go anywhere feeling content that although I am emitting some CO2 while burning it I am not burning up twice as much getting it to me. Doesnt anyone else think about stuff like that???

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Getting TV's is one thing, but transporting burnt wood halfway round the globe is another ! Especially when there is good stuff here in the UK. We dont make TV's in the uk so we dont have a choice. 

Take a read of this 

Quote"The process of transporting charcoal to Britain also racks up a fair amount of emissions. One sustainable charcoal company estimates that shifting a single bag of charcoal from South Africa to a shop in Britain emits ten times more CO₂ - enough to power a 100W incandescent light bulb for over three hours - than delivering a home-grown bag"

Take a look at these - really cheap and I bet work a treat in a Cobb. If I had one I would try them. I dont and just use local Hereford charcoal in my Webber.

And I though campers would have some consideration for the enviroment - obviously not

Not all don't elanman, some of us try to keep a balance. As i say, it's a little daft to be destroying the very thing we went out there to see. It is a hard balance though and the issues can be complex as Okean suggests. I agree however that reckless disregard - ''I want it so I don't care where it comes from or what problems there are with that'' doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.