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? Plastiphalt: Recycled plastic hits the road in St Kilda – Australia
Posted on September 19, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Plastiphalt: Recycled plastic hits the road in St Kilda
The path to a solution for Victoria’s recycling crisis could be paved with plastic after one council resurfaced a suburban street using hundreds of kilograms of discarded auto car parts.
It is being rebuilt using former plastic car components, which otherwise would have been sent to landfill, to create a more environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional asphalt.
It is part of a two-year trial designed to divert commercial waste from landfill. The council previously conducted a smaller trial in Middle Park.
Cr Gross said the recycled material did not contain microplastics – tiny plastic fragments – that have plagued Melbourne’s waterways and Port Phillip Bay.
“That’s important because we want to get the world away from these microplastics,” Cr Gross said. “You can go down to any beach on Port Phillip Bay and put your nose to the sand and find lots of them.”
Why is it not microplastics? If it is not now will it become micro as it wears down over time? The tyres do so why not the road material as well. Somehow this seems not the best thing to do.
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