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? Waste to Energy Expansion in Hawaii
Posted on October 18, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWBJ Weekly News Bulletin: Oct. 16-22, 2012 Item: 3.
Covanta Energy Corp. (Morristown, NJ) has finished expanding its large waste-to-energy plant in Honolulu, Hawaii called H-Power. The company added a third boiler which increased the facility’s capacity by 900 tons per day to 3,000 tons. That is enough to process all of the island’s post-recycled municipal solid waste and will produce about 90 megawatts of power, or enough to satisfy 8 percent of the island’s power needs.
In 22 years of operation, the facility has processed more than 13 million tons of waste, reduced the need for 15 million barrels of imported oil, saved 500 hundred acres of land otherwise used for landfills and recovered 450,000 tons of metals for recycling – the equivalent of four aircraft carriers.
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