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? WCA, Morrow Renewables, and Enerdyne Power Systems Unveil New High BTU Landfill Gas-To-Energy Facility That Will Benefit Houston and Fort Bend Residents | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine
Posted on October 6, 2013 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalThe annual reduction of greenhouse gases attributable to this project is approximately equivalent to the carbon dioxide emissions from nearly 468,000 barrels of oil or 22,557,000 gallons of gasoline consumed, or the carbon sequestered annually by nearly 165,000 acres of pine or fir forests.
The ongoing production and development of this landfill gas facility will create dozens of jobs in the Houston area.
All this in a state dominated by big oil money. It shows the need for alternate energy sources and plastic waste can collected to supply some of this instead of simply landfilling this waste and losing its energy value.
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