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? Rubbish could power homes – Australia
Posted on June 8, 2013 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalRubbish could power homes – The West Australian.
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish otherwise heading for landfill would be used to generate enough electricity for 60,000 homes under a proposal for Kwinana.
Melbourne firm Phoenix Energy has applied to WA’s environmental watchdog for approval to build a $400 million, 60MW waste-to- energy plant in the heart of Perth’s industrial precinct.
The project, backed by prominent WA businesswoman Janet Holmes a Court and Japanese firm Mitsubishi, would reportedly be the first of its kind in Australia.
In papers lodged with the Environmental Protection Authority, Phoenix said the proposal would use about 300,000 tonnes of municipal waste a year to produce electricity.
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