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 Praised as Covanta Climbs Climate Change Index
Posted on May 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWaste to Energy Praised as Covanta Climbs Climate Change Index – Waste Mangagement World.
“In its analysis, Maplecroft said: “addressing climate change and energy efficiency is at the core of Covanta’s business, as converting waste to energy allows the company to be a net negative emitter of GHG”
Incineration of non recyclable plastic waste has the big advantage of reclaiming the stored molecular energy of the plastic, rather than let it be lost by disposing to a landfill.
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