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? 
How do landfill-biodegradable plastics work? – Biogone
Posted on June 7, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Source: How do landfill-biodegradable plastics work? – Biogone
We’ve all heard of what we need to do when it comes to our plastic waste, we need to reduce, reuse and recycle. The most obvious and lowest cost step in this process is to reduce the use of plastic, however currently reducing our plastic waste on a significant scale is not a viable option, and setting up efficient soft plastic recycling is taking far too long for it to be economic.
The other option we have in in the interim is adopting biodegradable plastics. The industry and consumers however still have little understanding about the benefits of this emergent technology for it to be formally recognised as a viable alternative.
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