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 plastic bottle by any other name is still a plastic bottle
Posted on February 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsReview the article on this weblink to read about the misconceptions being spread about the plastic plant based bottles by Coke and Pepsi. Their claims of a green bottle are not so green. They are just as big of a polluter as any other bottle and will last the same 100’s of years as waste going nowhere. If they were serious about their products not being seen as waste everywhere why don’t they support container deposit schemes and win a lot of public support instead of spending a lot of money opposing them and pitting people against them.
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