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? EU member states failed to meet waste collection and recycling targets
Posted on August 7, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
All 27 member states of the European Union have failed to meet the bloc’s 2020 waste collection targets and 2008 packaging recycling goals
Source: EU member states failed to meet waste collection and recycling targets | Sustainable Plastics
The Commission has opened an infringement procedure against all 27 member states.
The Commission said that ‘many’ of the 2008 targets set out by the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) were missed, without specifying which and by which member states. The PPWD required member states to recycle 22.5% of plastics, 60% of glass, 60% of paper and cardboard, 50% of metals, and 15% of wood by Dec. 31, 2008.
No surprise that plastic has the worst ‘meeting the target’ performance. Noble as intentions are, actually being able to do it can be a very different thing.
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