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? Germany moves towards new ‘plastics tax’ | Sustainable Plastics
Posted on July 9, 2024 by DrRossH in General, Plastic RecyclingFollowing in the footsteps of countries such as Spain and the United Kingdom, Germany is now also introducing a ‘plastics tax’ of its own.
Source: Germany moves towards new ‘plastics tax’ | Sustainable Plastics
- Tobacco filter: 8.972 euros per kilogram
- To-go beverage cups: 1.236 euros per kilogram
- To-go food containers: 0.177 euros per kilogram
- Bags and foil packaging: 0.876 euros per kilogram
- Beverage containers without a deposit: 0.181 euros per kilogram
- Beverage containers with a deposit: 0.001 euros per kilogram
- Light plastic bags: 3.801 euros per kilogram
- Wet wipes: 0.061 euros per kilogram and
- Balloons: 4.340 euros per kilogram.
It is questionable if the above will be sufficient. For example it would take a long time to pick up a kg of balloon fragments. To then get 4.3 Euros for it? The manufacturers and suppliers need to pay a consumerate amount relative to the time and cost it takes to clean up their products.
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