This article discusses how we use plastic cups and were they end up; going from our hands to sitting in landfills for hundreds of years. We use near 30 million tons of plastic waste is produced a year and only near 6.8% is recycled. There are products out there are will break down much sooner and take up less resources to make.
I think that this article brings up a good point about how people are wasting so much plastic and how little of it is being recycled. Businesses need to come to a realization of how long their waste is sitting in landfills. Eliminating the average plastic cup and replacing it with a compostable cup would cut back the waste built up in several places and impact the environment less. I personally believe that plastic alternatives should be used where ever possible to reduce the amount of plastics being produced since they never really break down.
http://3blmedia.com/theCSRfeed/Compostable-Bioplastic-Cups-vs-Plastic-Cups-Impact-and-Sustainability
The statistic about we use 30 million tons of plastic a year and only 6.8% of that total is recycled is amazing. I had no idea that the total amount of actually recycled plastic is so low. I agree with you that we need to make an effort to use alternatives to plastic whenever possible. However, I feel this alternative is often paper products. A resource that is dwindling and that is also not recycled enough.
ReplyDeleteThis can directly help our proposal by showing the statistics and how damaging we are being to our planet. Dutch Brothers alone sold over 23 million cups of coffee in 2009. Now if those cups were biodegradable and each stand had a recycling bin for their customers to drop those cups off. That's 23 million cups we could recycle. Very interesting article.
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