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Introduction of a bottle deposit scheme
Posted on February 3, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWith 91% of a public vote in Victoria Australia, supporting a bill to clean up plastic bottle litter, why do politicans support a lobby from industry who oppose it purely for their own profits. This bill if passed by these...
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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...
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Biased study has predetermined answer for Bottle Refund Scheme
Posted on January 19, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThis study was done with the conclusion already decided before the study was started it seems. Why would an independent auditor such as PWC Pricewaterhouse Coopers 'employ a long standing public opponent of CDS to advise on CDS...
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Coca-Cola Co. has taken a stance against bottle deposit laws
Posted on December 30, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsHaven't we learned by now that the current methods are not working and are just seen as ways for manufactures like Coke to keep on doing what they are doing now and not have to make any changes. Lots of...
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Plastic Bag Charge Claimed as a Tax.
Posted on December 30, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThis is not a tax by any measure. A consumer has the option to bring in their reusable bag and not pay any fee. Also with no local govt getting any of the revenue how is that construed as a...
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The Need for a Container Deposit Scheme
Posted on December 30, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA CDS or Container Deposit Scheme is a very successful program where it has been introduced. In Australia and internationally. Just this morning I picked up 8 bottles in a 200 m stretch. It just shows the magnitude of the problem...
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Palm Desert City to Discuss the Banning of Plastic Bags
Posted on December 30, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPWS was surprised at most of the comments entered on this article. It is very short sighted thinking of many people. Plastic bags are an item that have a life time of just a few minutes and then discarded. In a...
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California debates the Use of the Biodegradable Claim
Posted on December 30, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA sad case of bureaucrats getting involved in a technology they do not understand. http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_19195413 This article refers to landfill-biodegradable plastic bottles, yet cites the problems that a different technology ‘oxo-degradable’ plastics have and then further confuses with problems that...
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Dana Point CA to Consider Ban on Plastic Bags
Posted on December 11, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsIn every case we have read of, the banning of plastic bags has been well received. Even in Italy after one year now, 83% of the people would not want to go back to the plastic bag. Ireland dropped their...
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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?