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? One Stop Green Now Offers DesignerLiner Biodegradable Waste Basket Liners
Posted on March 13, 2012 by DrRossH in Environmental Plastic SuppliersOne Stop Green Now Offers DesignerLiner Biodegradable Waste Basket Liners – Houston Chronicle.
An oft reason people complain when a plastic bag ban is introduced, is that they have to go buy ‘plastic bags’ for their bin liners, so what is the point they ask. This kind of thinking is very sort sighted as what they should be thinking is now they can go buy biodegradable bags for their trash bins which is another good environmental step to take. This is one of a number of companies now making landfill-biodegradable bin liners.
Non biodegradable plastic bags in a landfill impede the operation of the landfill. Since the bags do not biodegrade they trap their contents inside the bag and keep them separate from the biodegrading environment in a landfill, so they last around a lot longer. With a biodegradable bag, the contents are soon exposed to the landfill interior and their breakdown happens faster.
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