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? Demand for Sustainable, Biodegradable Packaging Drives the Global Beverage Packaging Market, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Posted on May 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsIf these large packaging companies could see the damage their products were doing to developing countries who have very little infrastructure in place to deal with the plastic waste of their products, perhaps they would indeed focus on using different materials. Their current focus of lowering production costs and production time so they can produce more plastic and faster is not a good scenario for the world to have.
Plastic waste in developing countries is horrendous. It is everywhere, on land, in trees, in mini road side sump sites, in water ways, in their rivers and along ocean shores. It is not biodegradable so it accumulates more and more every year. The CEO’s of these companies sit in their plush offices far removed from these communities and are immune from the consequences of their actions. They need to take walk around some of these plastic plagued areas. They need to be held partially responsible for this plastic waste debacle. This is not a good benefit the West brings to the third world.
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