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? Oxo-biodegradable plastic offering an eco-friendly alternative
Posted on September 4, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsOxo-biodegradable plastic offering an eco-friendly alternative | Business Standard News.
This is a article written by a sales person trying to sell their product. They should be ashamed with so many misleading claims in it.
Oxodegradable will only cause plastics to fragment into smaller bite sizes pieces of plastic that are then susceptible to wild life consumption. It is a chemical reaction not a biological one.
Oxo plastics cannot be main stream recycled. Most will not break down in a landfill or without sunlight.
Regulators should evaluate these products themselves in their expected environments before believing these kind of sales people and their exaggerated claims.
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