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? Access to Plastics Recycling Rises to 95% in Canada
Posted on April 9, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsAccess to Plastics Recycling Rises to 95% in Canada – Waste Mangagement World.
While access to plastic recycling is necessary, the encouragement to plastic recycling is much more important. This report seems to be weak on this point. It does not matter if 100% of people have access to recycling if there is no education or encouragement for people to actually recycle their plastic trash. The plastics industry is the one in part responsible for so much plastic waste. They should be the ones to pay for the encouragement and education schemes to get people to recycle their plastic. At the moment the plastic industry absolves itself of any responsibility of the issues of waste their plastic items create, once the plastic item ships from their dock.
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