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? Queensland councils look into landfill biogas extraction – Australia
Posted on September 12, 2023 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalQueensland council leaders looked into landfill biogas extraction at a open day at the Toowoomba Waste Management Centre.
Source: Queensland councils look into landfill biogas extraction – Inside Waste
In a Queensland first, biogas recovered from the Toowoomba Waste Management Centre (Hermitage Road) is collected and converted into electricity via LGI’s recently commissioned power station. The initiative reduces Toowoomba Regional Council’s greenhouse gas emissions while powering the Wetalla Water Reclamation Facility, one of council’s highest energy users, with renewable energy.
This power project aligns with the Queensland Government’s Energy and Jobs Plan which has set a renewable energy target of 70 per cent by 2032.
LGI Chief Operating Officer, Jarryd Doran said council leaders could save millions of dollars for their communities by going green using landfill biogas extraction as well as having long-term certainty of their cost of energy.
Companies like Biogone are contributing this by making plastic waste able to biodegrade inn a landfill. For may years yet plastic is going to be dumped to landfill, so using Biogone technology to allow that plastic to biodegrade makes good economic and sustainable sense.
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