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? SPI targets OEMs with new council
Posted on April 9, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News – SPI targets OEMs with new council.
Advocating for zero plastic waste should be the main focus of the plastics industry going forward. For too long the industry produced plastic that has been accumulating as non biodegrading waste in our environments. The solution for this problem has to come from the plastics industry as leaders in the education process to stop irresponsible production of non biodegradable disposable plastic items and educating consumers to not trash their plastic waste but to recycle it. The plastics industry has to get heavily involved in recycling of plastic to get it back for remanufacturing into new products rather than just use new material feedstock all the time. Those days are coming to a end. The companies that understand this and prepare to move over to using recycled plastic are going to be the long term winners. SPI should be leading this transition with educating their members.
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