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? Australia’s Northern Territory launches bottle refund scheme amid industry critics
Posted on January 19, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsOnce this new container deposit scheme settles down there will be little discussion and the people will be happy, but at the moment it seems there are some unfounded critics caused by excessive price hiking. Why would a political party say they will repeal the law even before it gets started? This scheme will make the NT less polluted and create jobs and fund charities. Let us not forget, the price of a plastic bottle is not just the price to produce it. It is the price to produce it and then also has to include the cost to get it back out of society so its resources can be recovered rather than letting the bottle lie around as litter or remain in a landfill for 100’s of years.
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