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? Report: brands lag in meeting plastics recycling promises USA
Posted on June 14, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA new scorecard from an environmental investment group says global brands are falling behind on promises to make their plastics packaging more sustainable.
Source: Report: brands lag in meeting plastics recycling promises | Plastics News
Major consumer brands are falling well short of their public goals to lower the environmental footprint of their plastics packaging, whether that’s using more recycled content, redesigning for recyclability or expanding reusable and refillable options, a new report says.
The June 12 report from As You Sow came two days after the U.S. Plastics Pact published a similar report pushing back its own deadline for recycling goals to 2030, acknowledging that progress toward its 2025 targets has lagged among its member companies.
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