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? Greenpeace releases spoof ad linking Coke litter to death of sea birds
Posted on May 14, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThis advertisement was to be air on Australian Channel Nine TV. At the last minute the Channel pulled the ad. Even though the ad satisfied all the government requirements for advertising on public television, it was still pulled. Reasons mentioned was Channel Nine could lose advertising by Coke so it was not in the Channel’s financial interest.
This is essentially blackmail by one corporation to another. A TV channel even though it is a private company, could be argued is part of a triopoly (only 3 main channels in Australia) and therefore has a public obligation to provide fair and unbiased information to the public, not be able to censor its content to maximize its profits at the expense of the people it is broadcasting to. Coke’s products reply on constant marketing. If they stop marketing on one of the three major channels in Australia they will lose market share. Hence their blackmail threat is somewhat of a hollow threat. Channel Nine should be ashamed and have the decency to stand up for the people of the country they operate in.
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