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? 
All states need to up game in CDS stakes – Australia
Posted on September 16, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe WMRRhas welcomed today’s announcement from Western WA that they will be joining NSW, SA and the NT in expanding their CDS.
Source: WMRR: All states need to up game in CDS stakes – Inside Waste
The Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR) has welcomed today’s announcement from Western Australia (WA) that they will be joining New South Wales (NSW), South Australia (SA) and the Northern Territory (NT) in expanding their Container Deposit Scheme (CDS) to include wine and spirit bottles – and is calling on Victoria and Tasmania to stop sitting on the sidelines and join the celebration so Australia can finally achieve a nationally consistent scheme.
This is a good move. But a small improvement. They need to be able to take crushed cans or plastic bottles too. This aspect is causing a lot of containers to not get back into the CDS. Which defeats the purpose of the scheme! Plus it is in the operators favour to take as many containers as they can back. The unmanned RVMs are causing this problem as they only accept clean original condition containers with a readable bar code. Anything else is rejected which is a significant percentage of the attempted returns.
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