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 Study Says We Should Nix Biodegradable Additives in Our Plastics
Posted on April 7, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsNew Study Says We Should Nix Biodegradable Additives in Our Plastics | Care2 Causes.
This article is very poorly written and informs the reader almost nothing. It is as bad as the greenwashing they say the additive makers are doing. How is a reader meat to be able to read this article and make any conclusions from it? They can’t.
There are 3 main different types of biodegradable plastic these days. 1) Compostable (which is biodegradable but only under certain commercial compost facility conditions), 2) oxo degradable which is a chemical reaction noting to do with biodegradation (though the oxo sellers try their hardest to confuse this issue).
The third one is landfill-biodegradable addtives. Some of these have been tested by ASTM standard to show they do work. Yet this article doesn’t not mention this at all.
So how these authors can make a blanket statement and expect people to believe them, shows lack of understanding of the technology. They are not doing the industry any good at all and could be making our plastic waste problem worse.
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