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? Plastics treaty talks may consider ‘polluter pays’ proposal
Posted on April 21, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: Plastics treaty talks may consider ‘polluter pays’ proposal | Plastics News
Some countries will be pushing for the plastics treaty to include a fee on plastics, potentially up to $100 a ton, to fund environmental cleanup and recycling, when the talks restart in Canada April 23.
It’s not clear if the agreement will ultimately include such fees, but a diplomat from Ghana made a case for them during an April 16 webinar to address how the treaty could raise the estimated $17 trillion needed to build infrastructure for waste management, recycling and plastic pollution cleanup worldwide.
“I think it’s the only way we are going to be able to get additional funding that will be required to meet the obligations or meet the objectives of the treaty,” said Oliver Boachie, special advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation in Ghana, during a webinar organized by The Circulate Initiative, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and others.
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