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? Appeal over SITA’s Cornish Waste to Energy Plans Denied
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalAppeal over SITA’s Cornish Waste to Energy Plans Denied – Waste Mangagement World.
Cornwall produces around 300,000 tonnes of waste each year and is set to run out of landfill space by 2014, according to the council.
According to SITA UK – a subsidiary of SUEZ Environnement (Paris: SEV, Brussels: SEVB) – the 240,000 tonne per year facility will play an important role in disposing of the county’s non-recycled residual waste, helping the Council avoid high landfill charges and generate some 20 MW of electricity with 16.6 being exported to the national grid.
Cornwall Council said that work on the draft Revised Project Plan is now taking place and a report will be considered by its Cabinet later in the year.
“While we recognise that some people will be unhappy at this judgement, it will enable the Council to take action to tackle the waste issue facing Cornwall,” the council added in a statement.
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