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? Landfill Gas Trigeneration Plant Supplies Heat, Power & Cooling to Coca-Cola – Waste Mangagement World
Posted on September 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalMas Energy said that the facility includes a vacuum collection system that captures methane gas from a nearby landfill, which is converted the gas to clean-burning fuel and piped it to the trigeneration facility via a six mile pipeline.
The system generates at least 48 million kWh of on-site biomass energy annually – the equivalent of eliminating the carbon dioxide emissions, and according to the developer to reduce the beverage producer’s carbon footprint by approximately 20,400 tons (18,500 tonnes) annually.
While it is nice for Coke to want to reduce their carbon foot print, it would be very nice if they reduced their plastic foot print too.
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