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? Why Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic Really Does Biodegrade – Waste Management World
Posted on May 8, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsWhy Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic Really Does Biodegrade – Waste Management World.
Why is it that the only ones promoting oxodegradation are the manufactures of the oxodegradable additive. The author was correct in stating that oxodegradable additives causes the plastic to fragment down to little pieces of plastic which is worse for the environment. But to then claim they are ‘biodegraded’ with no test results is nonsense. Even this company will admit that oxodegradation does not work in landfills where most plastic ends up in western type countries. Yes it will make litter disappear from visible sight after approx 2 years, but is that what we want? We want to have littered plastic visible for two years then for it to be broken down into little bits where it then blows and flows around and now it is a size that wildlife can eat? This is not the product we should be using.
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