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? Huge change for millions of Aussie bins
Posted on August 9, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Even if you thought you were doing the right thing when it comes to disposing your food waste, you’ll soon need to change your ways.
Source: Huge change for millions of Aussie bins
Compostable plastic bags could be banned from food waste bins in a major shake-up.
It’s understood there are concerns over unacceptable contamination levels in the food organics and garden organics stream as a result of the bin liners, which can reduce the quality of compost.
The Household Waste and Recycling Draft Service Standard 2024 has indicated that the bags could be banned from FOGO bins despite the AS 4736 and AS 5810 bags being permitted for use in Victoria.
“I see all these different categories of biodegradable, oxo-degradable, compostable liners being banned as a good sign – that we have to think about our practices,” Bhavna said. “There has to be some sort of phase out … The government is right that there has been so much contamination in food waste.”
It is a shame but when designing for the general public, unfortunately the simplest requirements cannot be followed by all.
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