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? Twiggy’s new recruit is perfectly placed to wipe out ocean plastic – Australia
Posted on March 10, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Twiggy’s new recruit is perfectly placed to wipe out ocean plastic
“We have someone who’s been working with fisheries for 15 years; someone who works with one of the most prominent global environmental organisations in the ocean cleanup space; people with deep expertise in fish populations and what’s happening to them in the world.”
Andrew Forrest said that an extensive search had taken place before Ms Smith was identified as an “ideal leader”, and that her knowledge of building new businesses based on leading-edge global science had uniquely equipped her for the mission.
One of the biggest tasks in her brief is to dive into ocean plastics, and she said Perth was a perfect place to work on such a task because of its unique proximity to the Indian Ocean.
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