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? A first in Quebec: unprecedented mobilization to strengthen the curbside recycling of recyclable materials
Posted on June 12, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSimple and efficient, the system is continually gaining ground
The fact that the recovery rate has grown from 20.5% in 1999 to 65% in 2010 proves that curbside recycling is gaining ground. “Curbside recycling is the most effective recovery system and the only one that will help us reach overall targets that were set by the 2011-15 Action Plan in Quebec’s Residual Materials Management Policy. The system will continue to have a significant and positive impact on our environment because its ease of use will result in larger quantities of recyclable materials being diverted from landfill sites,” said Maryse Vermette, ÉEQ’s President and CEO.
This industry’s concrete initiative encourage the public to recycle more materials made of glass, metal, plastic, paper and cardboard and therefore increase the rate of recovery.
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