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? Tetra Pak to develop paper straws for juice boxes – Switzerland
Posted on May 4, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic StrawsSwiss packaging firm Tetra Pak is introducing paper straws for its juice boxes in response to growing concerns over plastic wastes.
The Lausanne-based company said April 30 it has been working to encourage consumers to push straws “back in the pack” once empty, so they can be collected along with the rest of the package.
“Now, work is under way to develop a paper straw that is suitable for use on its portion-size carton packages,” it added.
“It sounds simple enough,” said Charles Brand, executive vice president, product management and commercial operations, “but in reality, there are a number of significant challenges to producing a paper straw with the required properties.”
According to Brand, Tetra Pak will have a paper straw alternative ready to launch by the end of the year.
On average, Tetra Pak packages are about 75 percent paperboard, with plastics used in the multi-layer structure. Paper straws would be another important step towards the company’s long-term ambition of offering a completely renewable portfolio.
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