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? Secret state: Victoria cans access to stance on container deposit scheme – Australia
Posted on November 10, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe Andrews government has refused to release high-level documents that might explain why Victoria is the only hold-out on the scheme.
Source: Secret state: Victoria cans access to stance on container deposit scheme
But the one major and strident opponent to a CDS is the hotels and gaming lobby, the Australian Hotels Association. In its 2017-18 report to the Registered Organisations Commission, the AHA listed advocating against a container deposit scheme in Victoria as a campaign priority.
The AHA is known to be concerned that a CDS would lead to an impost on beer drinkers when the cost of managing the scheme is passed on. Senior Andrews government insiders have expressed similar concerns.
This is very appalling of any govt to act like this. An impost on beer drinkers? More like a hit to their profits is the real thing they are scared of. But the other states have their schemes working well so the concern about a little less profit is absurd. Just plain greed of them selves over everything else., over the health of the oceans, over the gross litter we all put up with at the moment, over the loss of a lot of resources that would otherwise be used in a circular economy. Just self service greed. We don’t need these people in our economy and lives.
Discussion · No Comments
There are no responses to "Secret state: Victoria cans access to stance on container deposit scheme – Australia". Comments are closed for this post.Oops! Sorry, comments are closed at this time. Please try again later.