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? Profits Boom as Chinese Waste to Energy Firm Secures Gate Fee Increases – China
Posted on March 6, 2014 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalProfits Boom as Chinese Waste to Energy Firm Secures Gate Fee Increases – Waste Management World.
The company said that its environmental protection projects processed a total of 4.423 million tonnes of household waste 68,000 tonnes of industrial and hazardous waste of and generated a total on-grid electricity of over 1 million GWh of electrical energy – an increase of 19%, 51%, and 27% respectively as compared with 2012.
If we can capture plastic waste rather than let it loose in the environment, then these types of plants can get its internal energy out to generate electricity.
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