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? WM opens $1.5-million Florida transfer station – USA
Posted on July 28, 2013 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWM opens $1.5-million Florida transfer station.
City of Fort Pierce officials joined in the festivities to kickoff off the city’s new Single-Stream Cart recycling program. Over the past few weeks, more than 5,000 64-gallon blue carts on wheels have been delivered to Fort Pierce households to expand recycling capacity and collection.
“Our new cart recycling program gives residents expanded capacity to recycle more household items, keeping trash out of our landfills and improving the environment,” announced Fort Pierce Mayor Linda Hudson on July 17, 2013. “The City of Fort Pierce is pleased to mark this expanded recycling program as well as the opening of the new transfer station.”
“Residents currently recycle about 15 per cent of their waste, and our goal is to increase that to 45 per cent with the new carts,” added Hudson.
While it would be ideal to expect households to do their own separation, it is just human nature to not do so very well enmass. Single stream recycling would seem to be the most effective method for highly efficient recycling. Plus it creates jobs for the additional employment of people who are required to then sort the recyclate. Funds for funding such an operation come from house holder rates or more directly waste collection fees. The latter would make the user pay more so than the property owner who may not be the one making the waste.
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