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’ plastics don’t live up to manufacturers’ claims – USA
Posted on June 3, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsBIN LINERS and other products made of ‘biodegradable’ plastic may not living up to their claims, according to new US research.
In response to consumer concern over the rising amount of plastic pollution across the globe, some plastic manufacturers have been adding ‘biodegradation-promoting’ additives to their materials which they say make their plastics more susceptible to breakdown by microorganisms.
These so-called ‘biodegradable’ plastics can be found in everyday items, such as garbage bin liners, shopping bags and even food packaging.
It is no surprise that oxo degradable do not biodegrade. It is a chemical process not a biodegradable process. For the landfill-biodegradable additive this is a bit strange. Tests by the author and others he has had dealings with using a different additive show 8% over 15 days for pvc and up to 50% for PE fill over 300 days.
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