WHY settle for chucking your rubbish in the bin when you can blast it with a flame-throwing fire shooter drone?

Chinese power supply companies are using fire-shooting drones in a bid to get rid of stray rubbish that keeps catching on power lines, according to reports.

3 Flame throwing drone blasts rubbish from power line

3 The plastic is destroyed in seconds

3 Plastic on the power lines can cause faults and blackouts

A shocking clip published by the People's Daily China shows the drone at work.

Electricity workers are unable to retrieve bits of material like shopping bags, kites and Chinese lanterns that get caught up in the high voltage power lines.

But as this video taken in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, reveals, they are now able to steer a drone up to the offending item and blast it into smithereens.

The fire burns the plastic, but not the power lines.

Previously, workers would have tried to climb the power lines and used a pole to retrieve the rubbish.

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But this alternative is a lot safer.

Meanwhile, in the UK, drones have been causing a bit of a stir.

One narrowly avoided colliding with an airbus after it “flashed past” the cockpit at 6,000 feet, an air safety report revealed last week.

All drone operators are required to observe Air Navigation Order 2016 articles which restrict a person in charge of a small unmanned aircraft to only flying the aircraft if a safe flight can be made.

But there have been several near misses in recent years.

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