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? New Bio-on plant to produce bioplastic microbeads for cosmetics – Italy
Posted on March 23, 2017 by DrRossH in GeneralSource: New Bio-on plant to produce bioplastic microbeads for cosmetics
First plant from new Bio-on Plants production unit will produce Minerv Bio Cosmetics, the 100% bioplastic destined to replace the microbeads in cosmetics that pollute the seas and are now prohibited in many countries.
We saw this news release on this ‘biodegradable bead’. We hope they realise and are not trying to green wash the consumer and cosmetic makers, that just because a plastic is biodegradable does not mean it is harmless. A biodegradable plastic only biodegrades away when put in an environment where there are lots of microbes in a healthy environment where they thrive. If the biodegradable plastic is not disposed there it will NOT biodegrade but remain a dangerous product for marine life and our food chain.
Have they researched this?
It is just like balloons. They are made of latex and the balloon manufacturers say they are not a problem as they are biodegradable. Yet balloons extract a deathly tool on marine life as they do not biodegrade in the ocean. Even if they did get to a microbe rich environment it would take months to biodegrade and in that time they are still dangerous.
So we hope they are careful and accurate with their claims and are not green washing a product just to get sales.
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