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? Government announces beverage container return scheme – New Zealand
Posted on October 6, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsConsumers will get between 5-20 cents back when they recycle their drink bottles.
Source: Government announces beverage container return scheme
“Too many beverage containers end up in landfill, on the streets, in rivers and in the ocean. Our recovery rates are only between 42 and 58 per cent,” Sage said.
She said the scheme was designed to incentivise more recycling of these items.
“[Beverage containers] would again become something of value, and we would see increased opportunities recycling and new opportunities for refilling.”
The design proposal will be presented to the Government by August 2020 and it is anticipated the scheme could be operational by 2022.
Well done to New Zealand, buy why do these things take so long to bring in? The recent huge successes in New South Wales and Queensland on their CDS scheme should make it very easy for NZ to bring this in.
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