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? 
AORA raises concern over FOGO contamination – Australia
Posted on July 25, 2024 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWithout a collective approach to FOGO contamination challenges, organic waste is at risk of being sent back to landfill.
Source: AORA raises concern over FOGO contamination – Waste Management Review
The rate of contamination (non-organic material in the FOGO feedstock stream) is an ongoing concern. Removing this contamination is difficult and costly for organics processors and it is impossible to achieve complete removal.
“Removal of contamination from FOGO at an organics processing facility is largely a manual process, requiring people standing at a conveyor belt picking contamination out of a steady stream of materials moving past them,” John says.
Plastic contamination is a problem here.
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