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? New Zealand Leads Global Charge Against Plastic Waste
Posted on August 7, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAcross the globe, countries are ramping up efforts to tackle plastic pollution, with New Zealand becoming the first nation to impose sweeping bans on both single-use…
Source: New Zealand Leads Global Charge Against Plastic Waste – The Pinnacle Gazette
Other countries had already introduced similar bans and going even further. Like the various states in Australia. That was not mentioned. Also not mentioned was NZ govt backed down from a container deposit scheme to stop drink bottle littering. These are very effective schemes to get plastic out of the environment, at very little cost. Every state in Australia has one now. But NZ backed off which was cowering down to industry. That should have been stated too.
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