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? 2022 budget commits $83.1m to waste and recycling – Australia
Posted on March 31, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe Australian Government announced in the 2022 budget that it is spending $83.1 million over five years on Australia’s waste and recycling capabilities to help reach 2030 waste targets.
A further $18.2 million will go towards improving awareness of correct recycling techniques and developing a new ‘ReMade in Australia’ brand to give consumers confidence in buying products that have been re-manufactured in Australia.
A $60.4 million budget commitment to develop new plastics recycling technology and advanced recycling solutions through the Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) was announced earlier this month. The funding takes Commonwealth investment in the RMF to $250 million.
Only the years to come will show if this made any difference.
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