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 Wrap for Farmer’s Baling to be Addressed
Posted on January 17, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsCleanfarms is to be congratulated for recognising this problem. The plastic bale wrap is becoming a big plastic problem that did not exist a few years ago. Farmers have few ways to deal with this problem waste. A collection agency would be a good way for the farmers to be able to dispose of this waste, or potentially a drop off point, though participation is probably going to be lower for this latter option.
The plastic wrap could be made with a landfill-biodegradable additive in it, so than when it is collected and if it is disposed to a landfill, it will biodegrade away to humus or plant food. If is made with the additive and not disposed to a landfill, there are no consequences, the plasic wrap can still be recycled as normal or incinerated to recover its energy. The important thing is that there is no plastic waste lying around in farms all over the country. The wrap manufacturers ought to be working with farmers or local agencies to use methods (such as incorporating landfill-biodegradation additives, or organising collection agencies etc) to assure their products do not end up as plastic waste lying around for 100’s of years.
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