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 Fuel Systems Inc. Enters Into USD $100,000,000 Equity Line Funding |
Posted on March 23, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsAll plastic waste; post-consumer, agricultural, nursery and industrial is very problematic to the environment. Plastic does not readily break down and on average produces 2.5 tons of CO2 for every ton of waste plastic that is incinerated or buried in a landfill. New Fuel Systems./P2F’s PDS process will address a host of issues ranging from plastic waste management, significant landfill capacity issues, petroleum reserve depletion/fossil fuel conservation, greenhouse gas emissions, and overall reduction of the world’s carbon footprint.
By converting waste plastic back into “sweet crude” oil…..this process may potentially encourage less drilling in environmentally sensitive areas and also have a positive impact, further reducing CO2 emissions
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