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? BINGO happy about government commitment – Australia
Posted on May 25, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: BINGO happy about government commitment – Inside Waste
According to the National Plastics Plan, in 2018-2019 Australians used 3.4 million tonnes of plastics, one million tonnes of which was single use plastic.
84 per cent of plastic in Australia is sent to landfill and only 13 per cent is recycled, with over 130,000 tonnes of plastic leaking into our marine environment.
According to the Plastic Waste Makers index 20 firms produce 55 per cent of the world’s plastic waste and we Australians generate the most single-use plastic waste on a per capita basis annually (59kg per person), that is ahead of the United States, South Korea and Britain.
This is a dire picture and we don’t anticipate the new government “National Plastic Actions” plan will sufficient to make a big change any time soon for plastic waste. More rigid controls on Industry are needed to get them involved in the solution of the waste their products are making.
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