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? Plastic waste used in laying roads in Bengal
Posted on November 9, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News – Plastic waste used in laying roads in Bengal.
The Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment (ICPE) has been promoting the use of plastic waste to construct asphalt roads.
How are they going to collect the bags in sufficient quantities to do this? Are they talking about putting a refundable deposit on bags to give them some apparent value so people will recycled them as opposed to throwing them out? If so then who pays for the deposit? The bag manufacturer?(They are in part responsible for the problem their products make). The shop who hands them out (which is the most logical point, if the overall goal is to reduce the use of disposable plastic consumed).
Who is going to pay for the freight to get all these bags to a central facility to where the construction company can then use them?
While it appears a good idea to use plastic waste, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered first to make this a viable alternative.
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