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? 
$30M in CDS profiteering going to beverage retailers – Australia
Posted on August 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
What we need to recycle
Business Environment Network – $30M in CDS profiteering going to beverage retailers.
The Boomerang Alliance has accused Coca-Cola Amatil, Schweppes and Lion Nathan of taking advantage of recycling laws by overcharging consumers for the cost of container deposit schemes, a claim the firms who are represented by the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) have denied.
Angel (of BA) estimates the total profits being made by the big three will get to around $30 million by the end of 2012 in both SA and the NT, with most of the profiteering coming from the NT due to lower recycling rates at 45%, compared to an 80% recycling rate in SA.
Environment Ministers will meet on August 24 to consider three options, including a national CDS, to increase recycling rates and reduce litter nationally or to delay the final decision even further.
Given the lack of net leadership by the government with bipartisan infighting by Liberal state goverments against the Labour federal government motions, we can only guess what the result on the 24th will be. Not too much action.
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