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? Brand owners setting aggressive goals for packaging sustainability
Posted on November 10, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News – Brand owners setting aggressive goals for packaging sustainability.
How can a plastic cup made from virgin resin with a recycle logo on it be claimed sustainable? The use of virgin resin precludes any notion of sustainability. Just because it is recyclable has little meaning. Most of Starbucks cups are cups to-go and the recycling rate of to-go plastic is extremely low. The cups have no perceived value so they are dumped in the trash. If companies like Starbuck were serious about this topic they would be using recycled resins and offering a refundable deposit on their cups are Starbucks stores to ensure most consumers would return their cups so Starbucks can recycle them. Now we are starting to talk about sustainable solutions.
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