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? Tesco Lotus shifts focus to ‘create share value’ concept – Thailand
Posted on December 14, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsTesco Lotus shifts focus to ‘create share value’ concept – The Nation.
Giant gives back to society in line with its business value; turns attention to education, health, environment, SMEs
Another major CSV theme for the company is to reduce the use of non-biodegradable plastic shopping bags, a matter that relates directly to the business and the environment, said Charkrit.
Under the campaign, which kicked off in 2011, shoppers are encouraged to use cotton bags instead of plastic ones.
Apart from reducing the damaging effects of plastic waste on the environment, the move also lowers carbon-dioxide emission from the production of plastic bags, as well as cutting the company’s business costs related to the provision of the bags for customers.
“Reducing our costs is an indirect benefit from this campaign. The main idea of the campaign is to raise awareness about concern for the environment in the long term,” he said.
When the campaign began in earnest in 2012, around 1 million fewer plastic bags worth about Bt300,000 were used by Tesco Lotus shoppers that year.
Last year, the company saw a much greater reduction in its plastic-bag usage, with 14 million fewer bags worth about Bt4.2 million being used, while in the first 10 months of this year, the reduction was as high as some 20 million bags worth Bt6 million.
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