Cambodia's plastic problem
Re: Cambodia's plastic problem
Ouch. That's 250 kg per Cambodian per year.CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:56 pm Cambodia produces over 4 million tons of garbage per year: official
Re: Cambodia's plastic problem
Yes, this is a problem, although nobody cares about the plastic cups most coffee shops serve their cool drinks in, even when drinking inside.cautious colin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:25 am The problem with edible straws or any eco friendly straw is that most of them are useless. Either get to soft, impart flavour or are reusable (which doesn't seem sanitary)
Best solution in 90% of cases is to not use a straw
Re: Cambodia's plastic problem
They can write a lot about it, but the plastic problem won't be solved. Ever. Most people realize that by now.
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Plastics was pushed in order to save the trees.
Maybe it’s time to go back to cutting down trees for cups and bags and boxes?
Maybe it’s time to go back to cutting down trees for cups and bags and boxes?
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You’ll have to be quick- by all accounts, they’ve got a handle on the illegal, or was that uncontrolled(?), logging. There might not be much left…newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:40 pm Plastics was pushed in order to save the trees.
Maybe it’s time to go back to cutting down trees for cups and bags and boxes?
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Re: Cambodia's plastic problem
‘No plastic’ campaign reaches 1M students
Orm Bunthoeurn | Publication date 29 September 2023 | 07:50 ICT
Students hold a paper pledging to stop the use of plastic in schools in Stung Treng province on September 26. MOE
The “Today I Will Not Use Plastic bags” campaign, initiated by the Ministry of Environment, has now been extended to over 1,000 schools throughout Cambodia, reaching over one million students, said minister Eang Sophalleth.
He touted the success of the campaign during a meeting with representatives of the Seoul-based Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) at the ministry headquarters in Phnom Penh on September 26.
“Our goal is to reach the whole country. The next step will be to expand the campaign to private companies as well as large factories and manufacturing enterprises,” he said.
GGGI representative Shomi Kim congratulated the minister on the success of the school campaign, saying the GGGI intends to support the campaign by producing bio-plastics and strengthening cooperation with the ministry.
Sophalleth launched the campaign on September 1, initially in 44 schools with a total of more than 18,000 students across Tbong Khmum province’s O’Reang-ou district, in a bid to reduce plastic waste and promote sustainable development.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... m-students
Orm Bunthoeurn | Publication date 29 September 2023 | 07:50 ICT
Students hold a paper pledging to stop the use of plastic in schools in Stung Treng province on September 26. MOE
The “Today I Will Not Use Plastic bags” campaign, initiated by the Ministry of Environment, has now been extended to over 1,000 schools throughout Cambodia, reaching over one million students, said minister Eang Sophalleth.
He touted the success of the campaign during a meeting with representatives of the Seoul-based Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) at the ministry headquarters in Phnom Penh on September 26.
“Our goal is to reach the whole country. The next step will be to expand the campaign to private companies as well as large factories and manufacturing enterprises,” he said.
GGGI representative Shomi Kim congratulated the minister on the success of the school campaign, saying the GGGI intends to support the campaign by producing bio-plastics and strengthening cooperation with the ministry.
Sophalleth launched the campaign on September 1, initially in 44 schools with a total of more than 18,000 students across Tbong Khmum province’s O’Reang-ou district, in a bid to reduce plastic waste and promote sustainable development.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... m-students
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Re: Cambodia's plastic problem
Interesting posssility.
The long read
‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world
When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?
by Stephen Buranyi
Thu 28 Sep 2023 06.00 CEST
Last modified on Fri 29 Sep 2023 14.56 CEST
In 2001, a group of Japanese scientists made a startling discovery at a rubbish dump. In trenches packed with dirt and waste, they found a slimy film of bacteria that had been happily chewing through plastic bottles, toys and other bric-a-brac. As they broke down the trash, the bacteria harvested the carbon in the plastic for energy, which they used to grow, move and divide into even more plastic-hungry bacteria. Even if not in quite the hand-to-mouth-to-stomach way we normally understand it, the bacteria were eating the plastic.
The scientists were led by Kohei Oda, a professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. His team was looking for substances that could soften synthetic fabrics, such as polyester, which is made from the same kind of plastic used in most beverage bottles. Oda is a microbiologist, and he believes that whatever scientific problem one faces, microbes have probably already worked out a solution. “I say to people, watch this part of nature very carefully. It often has very good ideas,” Oda told me recently.
What Oda and his colleagues found in that rubbish dump had never been seen before. They had hoped to discover some micro-organism that had evolved a simple way to attack the surface of plastic. But these bacteria were doing much more than that – they appeared to be breaking down plastic fully and processing it into basic nutrients. From our vantage point, hyperaware of the scale of plastic pollution, the potential of this discovery seems obvious. But back in 2001 – still three years before the term “microplastic” even came into use – it was “not considered a topic of great interest”, Oda said. The preliminary papers on the bacteria his team put together were never published.
Read on: https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ling-waste
The long read
‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world
When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?
by Stephen Buranyi
Thu 28 Sep 2023 06.00 CEST
Last modified on Fri 29 Sep 2023 14.56 CEST
In 2001, a group of Japanese scientists made a startling discovery at a rubbish dump. In trenches packed with dirt and waste, they found a slimy film of bacteria that had been happily chewing through plastic bottles, toys and other bric-a-brac. As they broke down the trash, the bacteria harvested the carbon in the plastic for energy, which they used to grow, move and divide into even more plastic-hungry bacteria. Even if not in quite the hand-to-mouth-to-stomach way we normally understand it, the bacteria were eating the plastic.
The scientists were led by Kohei Oda, a professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. His team was looking for substances that could soften synthetic fabrics, such as polyester, which is made from the same kind of plastic used in most beverage bottles. Oda is a microbiologist, and he believes that whatever scientific problem one faces, microbes have probably already worked out a solution. “I say to people, watch this part of nature very carefully. It often has very good ideas,” Oda told me recently.
What Oda and his colleagues found in that rubbish dump had never been seen before. They had hoped to discover some micro-organism that had evolved a simple way to attack the surface of plastic. But these bacteria were doing much more than that – they appeared to be breaking down plastic fully and processing it into basic nutrients. From our vantage point, hyperaware of the scale of plastic pollution, the potential of this discovery seems obvious. But back in 2001 – still three years before the term “microplastic” even came into use – it was “not considered a topic of great interest”, Oda said. The preliminary papers on the bacteria his team put together were never published.
Read on: https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ling-waste
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