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? 
Renewable gas key to net zero: Eneraque – Australia
Posted on September 21, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThere’s an untapped bounty of renewable gas that has the potential to help Australia reach its decarbonisation targets while managing waste.
Source: Renewable gas key to net zero: Eneraque – Waste Management Review
There’s an untapped bounty of renewable gas that has the potential to help Australia reach its decarbonisation targets, while offering a practical – and lucrative – way to manage waste.
Existing landfills and wastewater treatment plants across the Asia-Pacific region are already producing biogas – a fuel source that can be used to provide heat and power to sites, or be upgraded to renewable natural gas (RNG) and injected back into the gas network.
It’s that fuel source that Jeremy Pringle, Director of Eneraque Renewables, wants to unlock to improve waste management and drive down emissions as Australia aims for net zero targets by 2050.
Making all plastics landfill-biodegradable would not only help eliminate plastic waste from lasting 100’s of years, but allow its embodies energy to be captured and reused.
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