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? Plastic nurdles Archives - Plastic Waste Solutions
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‘Nurdle’ pollution hits beaches, wildlife – New Zealand
Posted on October 18, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News‘Nurdle’ pollution hits beaches, wildlife - NewsWire.co.nz. Dr James Bell, a marine biology lecturer at Victoria University, says overseas studies into micro-plastic pollution show nurdles are a threat to marine life and can impact on their feeding processes. “They strongly...
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LitterALLY 42 – April 2015 – Sustainability Victoria -Australia
Posted on August 23, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsLitterALLY 42 - April 2015 - Sustainability Victoria. Australia’s first plastic bag free town, Coles Bay on Tasmania’s east coast, took the step in April 2003. A year later, Birregurra at the foot of the Otway Ranges became Victoria’s first...
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The nurdles’ quest for ocean domination
Posted on February 22, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeThe nurdles’ quest for ocean domination - Kim Preshoff | TED-Ed. Nurdles are the tiny, factory-made pellets that form the raw material for every plastic product that we use, from toys to toothbrushes. And while they look pretty harmless on...
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