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? Pilot Flies 500 Miles On 10 Per Cent Plastic Waste Fuel – UK
Posted on February 8, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlanet Ark News
Source: Planet Ark News
On Wings of Waste, an environmental organisation has created an initiative that has the potential to keep end-of-life plastic out of the oceans and recycle it into a new source of fuel.
To show the potential of this idea the organisation recently completed a flight from Sydney to Melbourne using a combination of fuel made from plastic waste pollutant and jet A1 fuel.
It is estimated that there is currently 11 million tonnes of floating plastic circulating in the oceans. Plastic doesn’t decompose it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. In this form it is often ingested by marine life.
Small steps but a big start.
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