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? Environmental groups claim 320,000-tonne black hole in official recycling figures
Posted on February 16, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsEnvironmental groups claim 320,000-tonne black hole in official recycling figures.
Industry groups promoting ‘self regulatory schemes’ as the best method for their members to control litter of plastic and other bottles. When the actual counting of the amount of waste recycled is performed, it turns out that the industry groups are significantly misleading the public in the amount of recycling that is actually done. Are we surprised? Why would anyone think that ‘self regulation’ of a problem will fix the problem?
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