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? Evian churns out six million bottles daily while reducing carbon footprint
Posted on July 17, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsDanone’s mineral water giant Evian is now producing over six million bottles per day and has reduced its packaging carbon footprint by 40% in eight years.
It takes three seconds to fill a bottle at the facility, with 12 PET parallel production lines and one glass line at its Evian plant in France.
It is incredulous to they think they can say ‘more sustainable’. There is nothing sustainable about making 6 million plastic disposable plastic items per day! What are they thinking of other than their own greed? If they want to go ahead and trash the planet and harm countless wildlife with all this plastic looses in the environment, then they should put a refundable deposit on their bottles. This would greatly enhance the number that get returned for recycling. Plus set up the infrastructure so stores can take them back. If they are not willing to do this they are just duping the public with their baseless claims.
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