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? Pakistan International Airways agrees to use “d2w” technology in its plastic packaging
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This is an odd thing to do. International air line rubbish has strict quarantine regulations to avoid transporting microbes across countries.
All a oxo additive will do it make the plastic cups etc fragment into lots of little pieces of plastic, but only if the plastic is left in the air above ground. So what is an oxo going to do here? If they take them off the plane they either go to a landfill or a WTE plant. In a landfill the oxo doesn’t work and in a WTE, where the plastic is incinerated, the oxo provides nothing here either. IT would appear the air line has been conned by the oxo sales people.
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