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? 2025 Targets data ‘disappointing’, APCO calls for reset – Australia
Posted on April 21, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) has today released its review of the 2025 National Packaging Targets, with headline data making it plain that the targets are not on track to be met.
Target 2, the target of ‘recycling or composting of 70 per cent of plastic packaging by 2025’ is presenting the biggest challenge.
According to APCO, in 2020-21, the recovery rate for plastic packaging was 18 per cent. Based on current, funded and underutilised reprocessing capacity, plastic recovery could reach 46 per cent by 2025.
The APCO explanation of why these targets will not be met is accurate. To get this change however requires monumental changes to industry, regulations and infrastructure. This will take years to achieve.
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