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? Strengthening South Australia’s container deposit scheme
Posted on October 1, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations“South Australia led the way when it introduced Australia’s first container deposit scheme 44 years ago, but much has changed since then, including new technologies, and the community’s desire and ability to recycle more container materials,” Speirs said. “More than 600 million beverage containers are returned by South Australians each year under the CDS, resulting in one of the most effective CDS systems in the world, with beverage containers accounting for less than three per cent of litter items in the state.
“The Marshall Liberal Government is committed to optimising container recovery and recycling and bringing the system into the digital era to improve efficiency of the system with early estimates showing a further 70 million beverage containers a year could be recycled.
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