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? TransForce Creates Partnership to Recoup Methane and Use to Produce Electricity on Hydro-Québec Grid
Posted on July 13, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalTransForce Inc. (TSX: TFI), a North American leader in the transportation and logistics industry, today announced that its Environmental Services division has formed a partnership with Quebec-based Terreau Biogaz Inc. to convert methane to electricity from its Granby and Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec landfill sites. The electricity has been placed on the Hydro-Québec grid as of June 29th. In its first year, the project will produce one megawatt of power, roughly enough electricity to power about 450 homes. That will double to two megawatts next year and at its peak the facility will generate three megawatts. The $10 million investment in the project, will allow for the sale of electricity to Hydro Québec for a 24 year period.
“In addition to generating electricity, the project will reduce greenhouse gas production at the Granby site and will contribute to the Quebec government’s 2012-2020 climate change goal of lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 20% versus the base year of 1990,” explained Marc Couture, General Manager of Terreau Biogaz.
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