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 to Hit 60% in Months with New Service in Tandridge UK
Posted on April 28, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsRecycling to Hit 60% in Months with New Service in Tandridge – Waste Mangagement World.
While the quoted number of 60% doesn’t mean too much as you could ask 60% of what? But what this article does inform us about is that switch to comingled kerb side recycling leads to higher amounts of waste being recycled including plastic waste.
As quoted in the article; “Key to this is commingling which is proven to drive up recycling participation and volumes, and which continues to be chosen by local authorities, undermining those who say that kerbside-sort collections are the way forward”
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