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? 95 MW Palm Beach waste to energy plant opened in Florida
Posted on July 11, 2015 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal95 MW Palm Beach waste to energy plant opened in Florida – Waste Management World.
Palm Beach County’s advanced waste to energy facility – the Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 2 (PBREF2) – has been officially opened to process more than 1 million tons of municipal solid waste per year in Florida.
The facility, owned by the Solid Waste Authority (SWA) and located in West Palm Beach was designed, manufactured and constructed by a consortium of Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) and KBR, Inc.
B&W PGG designed and manufactured the plant’s three mass-burn, waste to energy boilers, capable of generating up to 95 megawatts of electricity, and its environmental control system.
The plant features DynaGrate® air-cooled and water-cooled combustion grates designed by B&W Vølund and will be operated under a 20 year agreement by B&W PGG’s subsidiary, Palm Beach Resource Recovery Corporation, which has operated the adjacent PBREF 1 since 1989.
PBREF 2 is located on 24 acres adjacent to the county’s original waste to energy facility, also designed and built by B&W.
As the most advanced and cleanest waste to energy power plant in North America, according to B&W, PBREF 2 will provide power for an estimated 44,000 homes and businesses while processing more than 1 million tons of post-recycled municipal solid waste each year.
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