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 strategies may need adopting in landfill gas management – Australia
Posted on October 26, 2025 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal, Plastic RecyclingSource: New strategies may need adopting in landfill gas management – Inside Waste
Building sustainable compost markets
“With all these organics coming into the marketplace, the big issue that needs to be to be addressed in a meaningful way is the end market,” said Dearman. “We’re going to have millions of tonnes of compost material, and it’s just going to be sitting there with nowhere to go.”
He identified farmers and agronomists as key partners in building sustainable markets. Linking compost production to broadacre farming, and other sectors will be essential to prevent oversupply. The variety of potential uses is broad, but the challenge is ensuring consistent quality and matching products to the right applications.
“These challenges include the locations of the repurposed organics, as well as the types of markets they go into such as horticulture and broadacre farming,”
A successful circularity system has 3 important steps that need to be followed. 1) Collection of the ‘waste’ to be treated as its is typically spread widely over the general public that can be troublesome and expensive to get to a central station for treatment. 2) A facility that can process it into some reusable form. For many products like soft plastic film, this can be quite difficult and require expensive machinery. And it has to be done at comparable or lower cost to using new materials for the facility to be viable. 3) A market for the reprocessed materials to be used to make new goods that can sell at comparable or lower costs to the same goods make of new material. If any of these steps fail the circularity idea fails.
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