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? N.E.W. agrees to change marketing claims for plastic lumber – News – Plastics News
Posted on March 3, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsN.E.W. agrees to change marketing claims for plastic lumber – News – Plastics News.
According to the FTC complaint, N.E.W. Plastics Corp., which also does business as Renew Plastics, has been making false and misleading statements about the Evolve and Trimax brands of plastic lumber. FTC alleges that between September 2012 and March 2013, the company claimed that its Evolve products were made from 90 percent or more recycled high density polyethylene, that its Trimax products were made from primarily post-consumer content like milk jugs and detergent bottles, and that both Evolve and Trimax are completely recyclable.
FTC says that during that time period, “Evolve contained, at most, 58 percent recycled plastic,” and the post-consumer content of Trimax products was less than 12 percent on average.
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