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 – The Boom Continues Led by Europe and China
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWaste to Energy – The Boom Continues Led by Europe and China – Waste Mangagement World.
Across the world there are some 2150 thermal waste treatment plants are currently operational, and, according to ecoprog those facilities have the capacity to treat almost 250 million tonnes of waste per year.
Around a further 250 new waste to energy facilities with a capacity of approximately 70 million tonnes per year will be commissioned by 2016, the report found.
The increasing lack of space in urban conurbations throughout the world and the decline of available landfill capacity are cited as the main contributing factors for the dynamic global market for the new construction of waste incineration plants.
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