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? 
78 MW Waste to Energy Incineration Plant Under Way in Finland – Waste Mangagement World
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal
78 MW Waste to Energy Incineration Plant Under Way in Finland – Waste Mangagement World.
The agency added that the plant’s heat production will correspond to about half of Vantaa region’s annual heat requirement.
It was also claimed that once operational the plant will help Vantaan Energia use about 30% less coal for its electricity and heat production – reducing the company’s carbon dioxide emissions by some 20% from the current level.
“The new plant will burn 320,000 tonnes of waste annually, the plant output will be 78 MW of electricity and 120 MW of district heating, with an overall plant efficiency of 95%. These values are the best in the world,” explained Ilkka Lassila, senior project manager at Poyry.
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