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? Bioplastics maker Danimer faces shutdown amid financial woes – USA
Posted on March 19, 2025 by DrRossH in BioPlasticsDanimer Scientific Holdings LLC, a producer of PHA bioplastics, has announced the closure of its Bainbridge, Georgia, manufacturing plant, laying off all 82 employees in face of “an unprecedented shortage of liquidity.”
Source: Bioplastics maker Danimer faces shutdown amid financial woes | Sustainable Plastics
Brightmark started building the Ashley plastics-to-fuel plant in 2019. It planned to convert around 100,000 tons of plastic waste into over 18 million gallons a year of ultra-low sulphur diesel and naphtha blend stocks, and nearly 6 million gallons a year of wax. As of 2023, the plant had processed around 2,000 tons of plastic waste.
The woes of alternatives to conventional plastic continue which makes landfill biodegradable plastic such as from biogone.com.au more and more important as that allows conventionak plastic to biodegrade away in modern landfills.
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