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? Feedback sought on national framework for recycled content – Australia
Posted on July 28, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe Federal Government has launched a push to introduce a national framework for recycled content traceability in products.
Source: Feedback sought on national framework for recycled content – Waste Management Review
Traceability allows businesses to track recycled content from its origin to its final destination, through the stages of material recovery, reprocessing, manufacturing, distribution and retail.
It will make clear key information including where recycled content has come from and how it has been processed and handled.
This is necessary to ensure recycled content is free of harmful chemicals and suitable for reuse, for example, as new food packaging.
How practical or even doable will this be?
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