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? Who’s afraid of plastic bags? -Philippines
Posted on November 29, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsWho’s afraid of plastic bags? | Inquirer Lifestyle.
This is an article written by a producer of an additive to make plastic bags fragment into little bits of plastic that then flow and blow around the environment. In this state these fragments are dangerous for wildlife and us as humans.
If buried in a landfill where there is little oxygen, these bags will not break down like they infer they do. Instead they sit polluting just like a conventional bag will do which is 100’s of years. They will not biodegrade and hence methane for power generation cannot be used which is a great loss.
They imply that a bag does not take us much space in a landfill there fore they are ok. However a billion bags in a landfill takes up a of space and can interfere with the designed landfill operating sequence. It is by far a better choice to not let these bags be made to send to landfills in the first place.
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