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? Waste Gasification, AD and MBT Facility Planned for Milton Keynes – UK
Posted on November 8, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWaste Gasification, AD and MBT Facility Planned for Milton Keynes – Waste Mangagement World.
Waste and recycling company AmeyCespa has been named as the preferred bidder to design, build and operate a facility that will feature MBT and anaerobic digestion as well as waste gasification technology from Energos to treat around 90,000 tonnes of residual waste in Milton Keynes.
According to the company, a part of Spanish infrastructure company Grupo Ferrovial (FER:MC), the Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park will deal with household ‘black sack’ waste, residual waste which has been through a recycling process and some commercial waste.
The gasification technology to be deployed at the planned facility is to be supplied by Warrington based Energos, and will have a capacity of over 90,000 tonnes and generate a gross output of 7 MW., power for 11,000 homes.
Benefits were said to include reduced costs for local waste management – a saving of more than £50million over the design life of the facility, a 95% reduction in landfill, 45 permanent jobs and an on-site visitor and education centre for use by schools and the wider community.
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