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? NSW & WA leading with fast-tracked plastics ban – Australia
Posted on June 18, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsFrom next year, lightweight plastic bags, disposable plastic straws and cutlery, plastic cotton buds, microbeads, and other forms of single-use plastics will be banned in the NSW state, as part of the government’s $365 million five-year plan to reduce plastic waste by 30 per cent by 2025.
NSW environment minister Matt Kean says the changes were necessary because sticking to the current trend will see more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050.
As for WA, the state has fast-tracked its efforts by four years, now aiming to phase-out single-use plastic bowls, cups, plates, cutlery, straws, polystyrene food containers, thick plastic bags, helium balloons, takeaway coffee cups and lids, along with other single-use plastic materials by 2022.
Well done these two states. A good first start.
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