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? Toronto students push council for ‘clamshell’ recycling
Posted on September 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsToronto students push council for ‘clamshell’ recycling | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.
City has been working closely with retailers to help get clamshell packages down to one specific type that would use polyethylene terephthalate
It took a group of Grade 3 and 4 students to convince Toronto City Council that recycling popular clamshell plastic packaging is a worthy pursuit.
The Jackman Avenue Junior Public School students often encounter the packaging when eating items like take-out sandwiches or grocery store pastries. But when the youngsters learned the packaging wasn’t on the City’s recyclabes list, they took to pen and paper to protest.
PWS has suggested many tiems that a lot of packaging could be made from just one material and that would make recycling so much easier. At the moment manufacturers are free to pick whatever plastic suits them best as they have no regard for the waste problem their products make. This needs to be corrected.
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