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? Monash council gives ratepayers soft plastic collection point – Australia
Posted on December 15, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingMonash Council has established a collection site for Monash residents who want to continue recycling their soft plastics following the suspension of the RedCycle soft plastics recycling program at Coles and Woolworths.
The collection site, which is for Monash residents only, will be operational from Monday 19 December at the Monash Recycling & Waste Centre in Notting Hill. The service will be provided in partnership with APR Plastics.
The collection point is expected to be in place until mid-2023, when council is expecting additional information about more easily accessible soft plastics recycling to be available from government and industry.
Mayor, Tina Samardzija, is pleased council can offer an option for residents to recycle soft plastics.
“Monash Council is committed to reducing what our community sends to landfill, and I am pleased we have been able to work with APR Plastics to establish a soft plastics collection point at our Monash Recycling & Waste Centre,” said Samardzija.
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“Right across Australia we need to embrace and encourage reducing, reusing, and recycling. Monash Council calls for leadership from other levels of government and our supermarkets on how we do this with soft plastics, as the current system is unsustainable.”
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