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 to Energy & Comingled Recycling Proposed in Aberdeen – Waste Mangagement World
Posted on February 17, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal
Proposed Waste to Energy Plant
More European economies looking towards incineration of waste to eliminate it and recover the energy from that waste.
Waste to Energy & Comingled Recycling Proposed in Aberdeen – Waste Mangagement World.
And what do we do with the bottom ash that is a byproduct of the incineration process?
Uses of Bottom Ash from Waste to Energy Incineration
Coco says:
Post Author April 4, 2012 at 2:50 amChildren’s Workshops at the Green Architecture DayWhat a fun workshop! Not only enolyabje but thought -provoking too. We wont be looking at Tetra packs with the same eyes from now on – you could see the children’s minds working on all the recycling possibilities!Frances Parkin (Parent)I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop; it really made me think about all the different ways of recycling and how to save the environment. Philip showed me how to make a wallet out of a Tetra pack and in the end we had something to take home.Verity Parkin Age 11
Vaso says:
Post Author April 7, 2012 at 12:22 amShoot, who would have thuohgt that it was that easy?