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? Biodegradable additives vs. recycling debate boils over in Mexico
Posted on May 7, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics & Rubber Weekly – Biodegradable additives vs. recycling debate boils over in Mexico.
The consultant had the right idea, he just does not understand the difference between biodegradable and degradable additives. He erroneously lumps them into one product when they are very different. Degradable is a chemical reaction that causes plastic to fragment into little bits of plastic which is bad for the environment. Biodegradable or more properly landfill-biodegradable is a biological reaction whereby local microorganisms in a landfill attack the plastic waste and digest it away. Since most plastic is discarded to a landfill in Western countries this type of additive is the best one to use. Señor De la Tijera needs to take a minute to understand the different products before he makes comments on products. He is a consultant afterall.
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