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? Kennedy tells industry to expect big changes on food packaging – USA
Posted on April 29, 2025 by DrRossH in General
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used a speech at a plastics and chemicals conference to highlight health risks from microplastics and changes in regulations for food packaging.
Source: Kennedy tells industry to expect big changes on food packaging | Plastics News
It’s not clear what the next steps are with the food packaging initiative but be suggested in his speech it would be a priority, saying that “things are going to change, and they’re going to change dramatically over the next four years.
This is one industry sector that does need a lot of change.
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