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 WtE facility being built in Melbourne – Australia
Posted on May 19, 2022 by DrRossH in General, Landfills and Disposal
A Melbourne based waste to energy company is developing a state-of-the-art waste to energy and integrated resource recovery processing plant which will deliver baseload renewable energy while importantly recovering recyclable materials from waste.
Great Southern Waste Technologies (GSWT) has secured land in Cooper St, Epping, Melbourne to build a new waste to energy (WtE) facility in Melbourne’s outer northern suburbs.
GSWT owner, Craig Gilbert announced his company has secured land in a strategic waste processing hub and will develop the site into the first WtE operation of its type in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
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“We saw a terrific opportunity to combine the world leading WtE technology exclusive we hold at GSWT within the local recovered waste success story precinct to ensure even greater success in diverting waste from landfill while also removing over 240,000 T of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere,” Gilbert said.
The new waste processing plant will pre-sort commercial, industrial, household and other wastes for recyclables before end-of-life wastes are environmentally well managed with gasification WtE technology to produce electricity.
“This will be GSWT’s second WtE facility in Victoria after recently getting the green light for our first facility in Dandenong South,” Gilbert said.
GSWT’s Chief Operating Officer, Lukas McVey says the partnership will develop a small, fully-enclosed WtE facility which can process up to 200,000 tonnes of waste per year and generate about 130,000 MWhrs renewable baseload power to the grid – enough to power over 15000 households for a year.
“The strategic location of the site means we can realise our long-held ambition to add resource recovery to the toolkit and conduct additional sorting at our Epping facility and remove materials that can be recycled,” McVey said.
“Combining the innovative technologies at both GSWT and this strategic location is a huge win for the environment,” McVey said.
GSWT has the Australian rights to Norway’s ENERGOS Technologies processes which are specifically designed to be a small-scale cost-effective waste to energy treatment plant which has minimal impact on the environment.
“By using this technology at our Epping plant, we’re confident we can reduce greenhouse emissions by about 240,000 tonnes Greenhouse Gas-e per year while ensuring minimal waste goes to landfill,” McVey said.
“The small footprint and fully-enclosed nature of Great Southern’s facilities means local communities can deliver tangible benefits to the environment and generate energy while maintaining the current amenity of the local area.”
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