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? 
CSIRO program designed to end plastic waste – Australia
Posted on July 18, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe CSIRO is on a mission to end plastic waste and is providing free research and development (R&D) support to businesses.
Source: CSIRO program designed to end plastic waste – Inside Waste
The CSIRO is on a mission to end plastic waste and is providing free research and development (R&D) support to businesses working in the plastic and recycling sector.
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working on advanced solutions to innovate plastic waste are invited to apply for the free, 10-week Innovate to Grow program, offered by CSIRO, to support their commercial idea by building their R&D knowledge.
CSIRO has a goal to reduce 80 per cent of plastic waste entering the Australian environment by 2030. The Ending Plastic Waste Mission is intended to support a sustainable plastics circular economy to reduce detrimental impacts to the environment, while delivering economic benefits.
CSIRO’s Ending Plastic Waste Mission Lead, Dr Deborah Lau, said it’s only by bringing science and industry together that we can revolutionise plastic waste.
“Each year, 90 billion tonnes of primary materials are extracted and used globally for plastics, with only 9 per cent recycled. This is commercially unsustainable,” Lau said.
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