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? Defra must deliver on PRN reforms, says BPF
Posted on September 29, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics & Rubber Weekly – Defra must deliver on PRN reforms, says BPF.
The British Plastics Federation’s (BPF) recycling group has written to Defra junior minister Richard Benyon, about the urgent need to reform the PRN system.
“With the recent ministerial re-shuffle ministers are likely to be taking stock but it is crucial that they follow through by capitalising on the opportunity to improve UK recycling infrastructure, which we believe will be fundamental to achieving recycling targets going forward,” said the group’s chairman Roger Baynham.
The recycling group wants a producer responsibility system that encourages reprocessing in the UK rather than the export of unprocessed waste.
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