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? Biodegradable plastic tubes for cosmetics – Europe
Posted on October 18, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPackaging Europe – Biodegradable plastic tubes for cosmetics.
Ferro Spain is developing the first series of biodegradable plastic tubes for cosmetics. The challenge of the new packaging is to replace the usual polyethylene tubes used for cosmetic products by biodegradable plastics, a complex task, considering the long life cycle of beauty products, close to two and a half years, compared to the gradual decomposition of biodegradable materials.
They seem to not understand the term biodegradable plastics and have been sold on oxodegradable plasrtics only which is the wrong product for them. They need landfill-biodegradable plastics.
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