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? ocean balloons Archives - Plastic Waste Solutions
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Australia to update plastics marine threat plan – Australia
Posted on October 30, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAustralia to update plastics marine threat plan | Plastics News#utm_medium=email&utm_source=pn-sustain&utm_campaign=pn-sustain-20151029&email_sustain. This is far over due. Like most other western countries, the over consumption of disposable plastic items is too high in Australia. We don't need to use them at all...
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Impacts on Wildlife & the Environment – Balloons Blow… Don’t Let Them Go!
Posted on February 28, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeImpacts on Wildlife & the Environment | Balloons Blow… Don't Let Them Go!. Beach litter surveys have shown the amount of balloons and balloon pieces found on the beach have tripled in the past 10 years. We’ve witnessed this increase...
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