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? Need to stop talking about circular economy and start acting – Australia
Posted on October 27, 2021 by DrRossH in General“I followed a random load of waste from one our trucks to the landfill,” he said. “When it tipped the material out – there was 10.2 tonnes of it – visually it looked about 70 per cent, but it was probably closer to 50 per cent, was soft plastics. That is after 12 months of advertising on prime time and spending millions of dollars on educating residents to not put it in there. They are not listening. They are not accepting the change. I would find another solution.”
This is why we are going to have plastic waste for many years yet inspite of pushess fro goverments to for a circular economy. We need to be doing so much more that just that. Industry and the public won’t willingly come along.
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