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 York Seeks Waste to Energy Proposals
Posted on March 10, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal
New York Seeks Waste to Energy Proposals – Waste Mangagement World.
For those that don’t understand that methane is generated in landfills from anaerobic biodegradation. “Furthermore, the City said that residential and institutional solid waste creates 728,000 metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, much of which is attributable to methane generation from landfills that receive its waste”
This supports the manufacture of landfill-biodegradable plastics for the following reasons;
1) It gets rid of the plastic within our life time. We should not be leaving our trash for future generations to deal with.
2) It lets the plastic waste be converted to methane and its energy recovered for power generation
3) It incentivises the local governments to collect as much trash as possible for this power generation and therefore reduces litter.
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