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? Australian city banning plastic food containers
Posted on August 10, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
AN AUSTRALIAN city has decided it will ban plastic takeaway containers in the next three years.
Source: Australian city banning plastic food containers
Deakin University’s hazards material management lecturer Dr Trevor Thornton said it was a good move, but Hobart needed to be careful.
“For example, with plastic shopping bags, sometimes the alternatives are not that better environmentally,” he said.
“What we need to do is determine why we’re doing it, what are the outcomes, what we’re looking for, and move from there. Is it the resources, litter, waste, cost, all of the above?
“The bottom line is we have to be cautious about swapping one issue for another issue.
“Plastics are not always an evil, they can be good depending what we are using them for.”
Dr Thornton said it was possible to phase out the plastic containers in three years if retailers co-operated.
We all agree it is best to get rid of them but we need to give people a good sustainable option to not get a back lash that could be worse.
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