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? Third WA WtE facility receives EPA’s tick – Australia
Posted on February 5, 2015 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalBusiness Environment Network – Third WA WtE facility receives EPA’s tick.
Phoenix Energy’s $380 million facility will receive and process up to 400,000 tonnes of household waste, enough to produce up to 36MW of electricity for the South West Interconnected System and power about 46,000 homes.
Dr Vogel explained that following the removal of the recyclable materials, the residual solid waste collected from households would be the primary fuel source for the plant.
Waste delivered to the plant would be fed through the combustion system to produce heat to be used in the plant’s boilers to produce high-pressure steam. This steam would then drive a turbine, producing electricity.
A good way to eliminate plastic waste accumulating in our environment.
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