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? Plastic bags and Tetra Pak cartons banned from Christchurch’s kerbside recycling bin NZ
Posted on September 24, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsChristchurch City Council is no longer accepting plastic bags or Tetra Pak cartons in kerbside recycling.
Source: Plastic bags and Tetra Pak cartons banned from Christchurch’s kerbside recycling bin
Tetra Pak cartons would also be banned from the yellow bin. The lining in the cartons that allowed them to hold liquid was not able to be recycled in the same way other cardboard products were, Trotter said.
The cartons were still being recycled in Auckland, but the city did not recycle plastic bags.
Greenpeace NZ oceans campaigner Emily Hunter said the council’s move highlighted the New Zealand’s broken recycling system and the Government needed to regulate the plastics market.
“We need real solutions to deal with plastic recycling. Simply putting it into landfill is not going to solve it.”
She wanted to see the Government adopt innovative ways to reduce the usage of plastic, including introducing refillable containers with a refund system for returns.
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