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? AGL chair repeats “lights will go out” coal threat as gas lobby goes into overdrive – Australia
Posted on March 2, 2023 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalScare tactics by the fossil fuled companies to not reduce their output
“But with every push into the future, however reluctant or small, it appears that McKenzie is dutifully wheeled out to put a dampener on market expectations – and to put the fear of god in business, industry and consumers. And the AFR is there to report it.
It’s a tactic adopted by Australia’s fossil fuel lobby more broadly, when renewables messaging appears to be getting the upper hand.
Just this week, with submissions into proposed Safeguard Mechanism reforms winding up and pressure mounting on the Albanese government to set a higher policy bar for industrial and power sector emissions reduction, a spate of articles warning of gas shortages has hit the press.
“Users on edge as plunging production sparks warnings of Victorian gas supply crunch,” reports the ABC, in an article suggesting high gas prices are due to a lack of local supply, rather than a mix of global issues and local market disfunction.
Despite the alarming headline the report later quotes Victorian energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio as saying this is not actually a thing – the state is a net exporter of gas and there are enough supplies available nationally to avert any shortfalls.
Longer term, D’Ambrosio says Victoria will turn to energy efficiency, electrification, hydrogen and bio-methane to cut its dependence on natural gas and drive down emissions.”
Biomethane production can come from landfill biogas. Which is where making plastics biodegradable fits into the model.
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