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? D2w provides best solution to plastic pollution – Pakistan
Posted on June 11, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsD2w provides best solution to plastic pollution.
Maybe Not! A warning note should be made here about Oxo degradable plastics. These are additives that are added to a plastic to make it fragment in to little pieces of plastic over 12-24 months when left in the open environment such as litter. These little fragments can then blow and flow around the environment in wildlife bite sized pieces. One could easily argue this is a larger environmental problem. The degradation (not biodegradation) is a slow chemical reaction that starts as soon as the bag is made and the user has no control over it. They refer to its breaking down at the end of its useful life. The manufacturer has no idea at al what the useful life is. This is simply green washing a product to deceive consumers into thinking it is good when reality is another situation. They will not degrade in a landfill but will last many 100’s of years like other plastic bags. They cannot be main stream recycled as they will contaminate other plastics that may not want to be degradable. All of these issues should be stated by the additive manufacturer and its salespeople before any sales occur so that the buys are aware of all its limitations.
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