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? ‘Like a scene from Utopia’: how NSW botched plastic bag ban – Australia
Posted on July 6, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAs of July 1, NSW has the dubious distinction of being the only state in the nation not to have in train a ban on single-use plastic bags.
Source: \’Like a scene from Utopia\’: how NSW botched plastic bag ban
But while the big retailers’ actions go a long way towards curbing plastic waste, it still leaves about 1 billion bags being handed out each year in NSW. About 20 million bags will end up as litter, Mr Angel said.
Confidence the market can be relied upon to solve the issue is at odds with the rest of Australia, and the views of senior NSW officials who had glimpsed an opportunity to lead national efforts to curb plastic waste.
NSW government has to get over this liberal belief over the good for the environment. It is so antiquated these days. Shameful.
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