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? Davao-based company to produce biodegradable plastic additive – Philippines
Posted on December 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsDavao-based company to produce biodegradable plastic additive | Sun.Star.
Robert del Fierro, president of Delfi Agriventures Corp., said the type of biodegradable plastic bag they will produce will be using a technology called “biosphere,” which is an American technology that has been used by advanced countries as an additive in making genuine biodegradable plastics.
Delfi have made a wise choice with this additive to make plastic landfill biodegradable. This is the only technology at this current time that provides a realistic solution to future plastic waste elimination.
A slight correct is needed, they said ‘Oxodegradable take 12-18 months to decompose in a landfill’. Oxo’s do not decompose in a landfill as they need oxygen to fragment apart and there is little to no oxygen in a landfill. Even the oxo additive makers admit this is true.
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