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? Coffee roaster looks to improve footprint of single-cup systems – USA
Posted on April 26, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsCoffee roaster looks to improve footprint of single-cup systems – News – Plastics News.
“The consumer wants what the consumer wants, but there’s a tipping point,” he said. “… There is a population out there, and it’s a growing population, that is concerned about bottles and plastic being wasted continuously.”
With the convenience of one-cup brewing systems comes a hefty share of waste. Brewers such as those sold under the popular Keurig brand use a small plastic cup to brew each cup of coffee or tea. Though the capsules contain recyclable or compostable elements — aluminum foil, plastic and organic waste in the form of tea leaves or coffee grounds — it’s difficult to separate the components for processing, leaving spent K-Cups to collect in landfills.
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