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? How beverage companies joined forces to attack Baird recycling scheme – Australia
Posted on February 18, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsHow beverage companies joined forces to attack Baird recycling scheme.
Beverage giants Carlton and United, Lion and Coca-Cola colluded in a secret plan to attack the Baird government’s proposed cash for containers recycling scheme, leaked emails reveal.
A group of 15 company executives and industry lobbyists held regular conference calls, and circulated emails, as they shared tactics and reported back on their meetings with politicians.
A “to do” list shared among the rival companies in December included Lion calling on Victorian environment minister Lisa Neville and Coca-Cola asking Queensland Premier Campbell Newman to “reach out” to the NSW Environment Minister Rob Stokes to get him to change his mind.
We sincerely hope the NSW govt will introduce this cash for containers scheme as it is very much needed. This sleazy lobbying by bottling companies is so against what the Australian people want.
In reading this one wonders how much the bottling companies paid to the current new government in Victoria to have such a naive anti CDS policy at the moment. One can hope they wake up and act for the 10,000’s of people who voted for them not a few big companies who fund their election campaigns and could care less about the environment their bottles and cans are trashing.
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