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? 
CDS needs an increase in deposit refund – now – Australia
Posted on August 11, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic Waste News
It works so well because all who participate at every level – from households to charities, collection depots and beverage makers – work together and have skin in the game – in other words, an incentive to play.
There is no doubt that, like any system or scheme, South Australia’s CDS needs to adapt to be fit for the future.
The genesis of CDS in South Australia was litter abatement. Its success since 1977 is seen down every street. Roads, footpaths and spaces that once were strewn with drink containers are no longer littered.
Today, the objective is to drive containers out of landfill and into the circular economy.
We have to first question who is saying this. No doubt it is a good idea to get recovery rates increased, but if it is also benefitting big drink companies who run these schemes and collect the unredeemed deposits, the maybe the scheme need to be changed to independent operators whose income depends on containers collected not on containers not handed back in.
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