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? US Plastics Pact updates targets for 2030 – USA
Posted on June 12, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA “more nuanced” set of objectives focuses on recycling, virgin plastics reduction, bio-based materials and other projects with goals in 2030 rather than 2025.
Source: US Plastics Pact updates targets for 2030 | Sustainable Plastics
The newest set of targets for 2030 include:
• Eliminate all items on the Problematic and Unnecessary Materials List and reduce use of virgin plastic by 30 percent by 2030. The previous target did not have a virgin plastic use decrease amount.
• Design and manufacture 100 percent of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable. That’s similar language as the original road map with a 2025 target.
• Effectively recycle 50 percent of plastic packaging and establish the necessary framework to recycle or compost packaging at scale. The initial roadmap’s target was to “undertake ambitious actions to effectively recycle or compost 50 percent of plastic packaging by 2025.”
• Achieve an average of 30 percent of postconsumer recycled content or responsibly sourced bio-based content across all plastic packaging. The initial 2025 target was to “achieve an average of 30 percent recycled content or responsibly sourced, bio-based content by 2025.”
• Identify viable reusable packaging systems and increase their implementation and scale by 2030, as part of reducing the use of virgin plastics. This target is new.
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