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? Coles ‘bagflip’ fiasco highlights the need for legislation – Australia
Posted on August 12, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAffordability is a large concern for many consumers and will outrank environmental standards in more instances than not.
Source: Coles ‘bagflip’ fiasco highlights the need for legislation
Most importantly, self-regulation in the private sector relies on there being alternative options for the individual to exercise a choice. Whilst Coles and Woolworths own 51 per cent of the fresh fruit and vegetable market, shopping elsewhere can be a difficult task for those with busy lifestyles. In the context of waste, the majority consumer is unlikely to force business to adopt best practice behavior by consuming elsewhere. It is hardly surprising that a private business, or Coles in this instance, would fail to self-regulate plastic consumption all assumptions considered.
We believe every stewardship scheme in Australia in modern times has failed to achieve what it set out to do. Companies (i.e. the people that run companies, Yes the same people that have spouses, children and grandchildren they want to look after) are more interested in making money that looking after their families future welfare or the Environment. Australia so far behind the western world and its governments are very slow to react when it comes to impositions on big companies. What does that tell us?
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