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? Companies need to be accountable for event waste management
Posted on July 29, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsCompanies need to be accountable for event waste management – Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine Blog.
Food festivals make for a lot of people scouting around for garbage cans, or in my delusional case, recycling and compost bins. (Ya right, Dave! Where do you think you live? San Francisco? Well, no, but I don’t think Toronto has to be so far behind. Do you?)
What I ended up seeing Friday night was extraordinary amounts of organics mixed with metals, and plastics mixed with liquid beverages. Kind of a waste free-for-all— just toss it in the bin and lid it.
This person is so right, the party responsible for allowing the waste to be made has to partially responsible for its clean up. And clean up is not throwing it all to landfill, out of sight out of mind. Clean up is recycling everything that can be recycled. Composing what can be composted. Yes it might cost more but cost more than what? Doing the wrong thing? We have gotten away with it in the past when we had less people and less disposable waste. But now both have grown considerable so to maintain the environment we are used to processes have to change. Change always involves cost but then it settles down to the new paradigm.
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