How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? $100m Polish Waste to Energy Contract for Keppel Seghers Consortium
Posted on September 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal$100m Polish Waste to Energy Contract for Keppel Seghers Consortium – Waste Mangagement World.
The plant will process 372 tonnes per day, which is worth is worth 333 million Zloty ($100 million).
According to Eurostat1, in 2010, Poland produced 315 kg of waste per person of which around 73% was landfilled, 18% was recycled, 8% composted and 1% incinerated.
According to Keppel Seghers the plant will process approximately 120,000 tonnes of waste per year, reducing the amount of municipal waste sent to the landfill site in Hryniewicze from over 90% to about 12%.
The facility is expected to generate approximately 7.5 MW of electricity during summer and supply 17.5 MW of thermal energy to the Bialystok’s district heating in Winter and supply 5 MW of electricity to the grid.
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