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? European recyclers push for new plastics recycling label – News – Plastics News#email_sustain#email_sustain
Posted on June 3, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsEuPR board member Paulo Glerean said designers are currently not paying enough attention to a product’s recyclability at end-of-life. Indeed, most designers do not make recyclability a priority in their design criteria and are encouraged to use resins from big chemical companies, not all of which are recyclable.
No matter how you look at it, the design of a product with only the sales point in mind and no regard about how the wasted product will affect the environment is irresponsible manufacturing. This has to change, some companeis are starting to look at this but many do not care.
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