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? Recycling rules set to tighten – Surf Coast Times
Posted on August 22, 2024 by DrRossH in Compostable PlasticsCompostable plastic bags used in FOGO bins may be banned in Victoria. Government considering changes to standardise the four-bin recycling system. Concerns raised about contamination and potential impact on recycling programs.
Source: Recycling rules set to tighten – Surf Coast Times
COMPOSTABLE plastic bags, used in many local government areas across Victoria to support and encourage the recycling of food waste, may soon be banned from organic waste bins.
The proposed ban is one of several changes being considered by the state government as it works to standardise the four-bin system being gradually rolled out across Victoria.
Certified corn-based composting bags can be used to collect food scraps and then disposed in green-lidded food and organic waste (FOGO) bins, with many households using them to line the benchtop caddies supplied as part of the recycling program.
While not all councils allow the use of caddy lines, several councils provide approved bags for free to assist households to maximise the FOGO program and help to divert food waste from landfill.
But concerns raised by processors about how the caddy liners are contributing to contamination may see compostable plastics excluded from the FOGO program.
Trying to educate the general public to follow some rules is mor eoften than not leading to failure. Mnay will follow but a few will not and they are the ones that systems have to be designed for.
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