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? 
No time to waste – Australia
Posted on April 21, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
In the past five years, packaging manufacturing, disposal and resource recovery have come to the forefront of the national discussion surrounding sustainability and product stewardship, particularly in food and beverages, writes Geoff Parker, Australian Beverages Council CEO.
Gone are the days of the “take, use, dispose” linear model, transitioning instead to a philosophy which focuses more on design efficiency, consumer education and responsible end of life through reuse and recycling. I have seen this change firsthand, in both the attitudes of consumers and the priorities of beverages companies when envisioning what their businesses look like both today and in the decades ahead.
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