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? Busting waste myths with Australia’s first large-scale energy-from-waste facility – Australia
Posted on March 26, 2025 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalA tour of Australia’s first large-scale energy-from-waste facility aimed to set the record straight on concerns surrounding the technology.
The 17-storey Kwinana Energy Recovery facility is wned by Acciona, a global leader in sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy solutions, it is the first of its kind in Australia that integrates recovery and reuse of non-recyclable waste with the generation of electricity.
“The Western Australian community has accepted that, which means we not only have an opportunity to establish Australia’s first ever energy recovery facility, but we’re starting to establish social licence about where plants can be located. Inevitably, we’re going to see plants not in such protected environments.”
Michael says the use of language also is important when talking about energy recovery. He says the term energy recovery emphasises the value and resourcefulness of the process and highlights the recovery of energy from waste as a sustainable practice, rather than focusing on the disposal of waste.
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