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? 
Circular economy for packaging – Australia
Posted on June 20, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingAustralian environment ministers have agreed to mandate obligations for packaging design and make industry responsible for the packaging they place on the market.
Source: Circular economy for packaging
The ministers have now agreed to mandatory packaging design standards and targets — including for recycled content and to address the use of harmful chemicals in food packaging.
The rules will be designed to help make sure packaging waste is minimised in the first place, and where packaging is used it is designed to be recovered, reused, recycled or reprocessed.
Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek said: “Even large companies like Nestlé, Unilever and Coca-Cola have told me they want to see regulation to help the world reach a circular economy.”
Making the rules mandatory will put the onus on the companies responsible for producing packaging to take responsibility for their waste.
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