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? Green Genius Biodegradable Plastic Trash Bags Become First And Only Trash Bag Validated As Biodegradable By UL Environment
Posted on March 14, 2012 by DrRossH in Environmental Plastic Suppliers“Plastic that lasts forever is a huge problem. We wanted to do our part by designing a trash bag that would biodegrade in an active landfill (where 95%+ of trash bags end up) – something that’s never been done before. Depending on the landfill, our bags will biodegrade in one to ten years while our competitors’ bags will pretty much last forever,” said Sam Paul, Green Genius founder and CEO.
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