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? 
Data shows bin targets are a mess – Australia
Posted on August 29, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
The SSROC has found that data is key to increasing the recovery of household waste and recycling and why bin targets might not be attainable
Source: Data shows bin targets are a mess – Inside Waste
Despite decades of recycling education, we still have a long way to go to get households to place only loose recyclable containers and packaging in the recycling bin and to ensure that products sold in Australia have packaging that can easily be recycled in Australia.
More evidence that plastics need to be made landfill biodegradable at the outset, as most is going to end up in landfill for a long time yet.
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