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? Founded By Industry Veteran Amit Tandon, Technology-Firm Ventana is Recycling Plastics For A Cleaner Future! – India
Posted on January 8, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsGlobally, almost 2/3rd of plastics consumed every year – a whopping 300 million tons – are littered or disposed to landfills. Such disposal poses a huge environmental menace – in last few years alone, littered plastic choked underground sewers, resulting in floods in cities like Mumbai, Manila and Dhaka. Furthermore, since plastics don’t biodegrade, they persist in our environment for tens of thousands of years. The world’s largest landfill, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is 700,000 square km patch of “oceanic plastic soup” located at the north of Hawaii where plastic exceeds plankton by 6:1. The degraded plastic is ingested by sea turtles, jellyfish and even albatrosses that fly over these stretches, killing thousands of them every year.
In 2014, the company setup India’s first fully continuous plastic to fuel demonstration plant near Chandigarh that enables conversion of municipal plastics to high-grade petroleum fuels similar to industrial diesel. The technology generates about 800 – 1000 litres of liquid fuel from one ton of waste plastic. By transforming waste to an economic resource, the technology enables high project EBITDAs of 45% – 55%, which substantially enhances the economics of a waste management operation.
Besides creating green jobs, Ventana’s technology offers several environmental benefits. It promotes ecological sustainability by providing a supplementary route for fuel generation that avoids greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with drilling, piping and refining crude oil. Every plastic to fuel plant leads to a direct reduction of 25,000+ tCO2e of GHG emission across its lifetime.
While it is really good to see an option for getting rid of plastic waste other than to landfill, we need to be careful that this could encourage people to continue to use unnecessary disposable plastic items all the time, rather than bring some sensibility back to our consumer usage.
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