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? Novamont wins bioplastics court battle – Italy
Posted on February 16, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsNovamont wins bioplastics court battle.
The Court of Milan has ruled in favour of Italian biotech firm Novamont in its legal case against Kromabatch Srl, over the latter’s distribution of information claiming that traditional plastics with added d2w could be considered ‘biodegradable’ or ‘oxo-biodegradable’ according to standard UNI EN 13432. Kromabatch is a distributor of oxo-biodegradable plastics additive d2w in Italy.
The court ruling banned Kromabatch from claiming that the additive could give biodegradability to traditional plastics and ordered it to pay compensation for damages.
Oxodegradable plastics have not been shown to be biodegradable. They fragment plastics to little pieces which is far worse for the environment. This has to be made clear to all parties. The Italian court was correct in this ruling.
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