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? Global production of bioplastics estimated to grow by 400% in 2016
Posted on March 31, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsGlobal production of bioplastics estimated to grow by 400% in 2016.
The current global production capacity of bioplastics, including both biodegradable and bio-based plastics, is about 1.5 mln tons, which supposes a total revenue of about Euro 4,400 mln. A significant growth of the bioplastic market is expected in the next few years. Some sources estimate an increase of the global production capacity by 400%, reaching values of about 5.8 mln tons in 2016.
As in most reported situations the writers do not understand the difference between compostable plastic and biodegradable plastic. They write the generic term biodegradable where as they really should write compostable. Compostable defines how the plastic is to be biodegraded i.e. only in a commercial compost facility. A compostable plastic will not biodegrade in a landfill as it is too cold and no oxygen, both of which are required for a compostable plastic to be digested.
The term Bioplastic infers nothing about biodegradable. Those two words are mutually exclusive. Bioplastic only tells the reader the plastic is made form bio sources not petroleum, nothing about how it is to be disposed of.
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