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? Rwanda cancels nonexistent Symphony deal – Rwanda
Posted on August 25, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics & Rubber Weekly – Rwanda cancels nonexistent Symphony deal.
How many stories do we read about where over zealous salesman make their sales pitches for products they do not understand just to get a sale. Yet again here is another story of an oxo product being over sold as a biodegradable product when the users come to find out it is not working as the salesmen said it would. Not only is this doing damage to the environment the products are being used in, but it damages the credibility of other plastic additives that will cause biodegradation in landfills.
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