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 water bottles bad for environment but beverage makers want us to buy more | News.com.au
Posted on July 22, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPlastic water bottles bad for environment but beverage makers want us to buy more | News.com.au.
This is so sad that a industry that is making a product that no one needs and is very bad for the environment can go to federal government and get a LAW passed to make it illegal to ban their products especially in a pristine areas like national parks. There is only one reason why that would get passed by any govt and that is $.
In Australia with bottle recycling at a pathetic rate of 25% the govt here is too weak (I.e. too lobbied by big $ corporations to look after their financial interests at the expense of the country) to do what 90% of the voters are asking for. Pass a bottle deposit scheme to get recycling over 80%. How is that a democratic government?
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