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? ANZPAC Plastics Pact releases Impact Report – Australia
Posted on May 24, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe ANZPAC Plastics Pact’s first Impact Report, is a crucial look at how the region is progressing towards a circular economy for plastic.
Source: ANZPAC Plastics Pact releases Impact Report – Waste Management Review
The report outlines key findings for each of the Regional Plastics Targets:
Target 1 – Eliminate unnecessary and problematic plastic packaging through redesign, innovation and alternative (reuse) delivery models. Result – 2,232 tonnes of problematic and unnecessary single-use plastic packaging were eliminated by Pact Members during the reporting period.
Target 2 – 100 per cent of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025. Result – 63 per cent of plastic packaging put on the market by ANZPAC Members is currently designed for end-of-life recoverability (reuse, recycling, or composting).
Target 3 – Increase plastic packaging collected and effectively recycled by at least 25 per cent for each geography within the ANZPAC region. Result – 16 per cent recovery rate recovery of plastic packaging placed onto the market across the ANZPAC region comprising 25.8 per cent recovery rate of plastic packaging placed onto the market in New Zealand; 15.9 per cent recovery rate of plastic packaging placed onto the market in Australia; and 0.1% per cent recovery rate of plastic packaging placed onto the market in Pacific Island Countries.
Target 4 – Average of 25 per cent recycled content in plastic packaging across the region. Result – 7.5 per cent average of recycled content included in plastic packaging across ANZPAC brand owner and retailers.
The report can be accessed here.
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