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-ware maker ramps up eco-friendly effort – USA
Posted on January 27, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastic-ware maker ramps up eco-friendly effort | LVB.
While recycling plastics is always the ideal, after decades of promoting recycling programs and significant improvements in recycling participation and availability, most people simply view some products as disposable, he said.
“You can’t change the habit, especially of people in the U.S., where we are so used to using a thing and throwing it away. People want the convenience of this,” Lee said.
At the same time, Lee said, “people are feeling guilty about this, and they’re looking to use more environmentally friendly products.”
So, he said, it’s up to manufacturers such as Fuling to develop products that are disposable, but have less of an impact on the environment.
This manufacturer is correct. Manufacturers have to take part of the responsibility for the disposable plastic products they produce. As we all know much of it will end up as litter and only a small fraction gets recycled.
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