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? Coca-Cola Amatil reassures investors as NSW container deposit scheme finally approved
Posted on May 11, 2016 by DrRossH in General, Plastic Limiting RegulationsLitter busting scheme by July 2017.
Source: Coca-Cola Amatil reassures investors as NSW container deposit scheme finally approved
Great move by NSW. This will make huge improvements into litter. Now if we can only get the other states to wake up and follow the lead NSW is demonstrating.
Coke needs to face up to the pollution they know their bottles cause. And that pollution is only a small 5% of the problem. The other 70 odd precent of bottles and cans Coke makes are currently going to landfills. That is a huge waste of recourses. Those materials could be reused in Australia rather than importing them all the time. The Fed govt should have been all over this.
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