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? Queensland CDS under scrutiny
Posted on August 23, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations‘’The scheme run by COEX has dismally failed to reach its target of 85 per cent recovery by 30 June 2022. It now stands at 62 per cent. Every container refund not recovered is an impost on consumers, already battling cost of living pressures. Tens of millions of dollars are not being returned to households and the scheme must bear some responsibility for this,” said Jeff Angel, Director of the Boomerang Alliance.
This is what happens we the drink manufacturers are allowed to run the scheme. The less returns the more they make. Collection has to be independent and based on the more returns the more the collectors get paid.
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