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? Vic Premiers Sustainability Awards Announced – Australia
Posted on August 4, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsNew apps, innovative alternatives to plastic, and food rescue organisations are but a few of the many inspirational entrants tackling waste which have been uncovered among this year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards finalists.
Beach Patrol’s LitterStopper app is the Wikipedia of waste, giving people a chance to record their rubbish collection so that the data can be viewed and used by anyone. Data from the app assists the state government collect litter statistics, identify patterns and inform future policy on pollution. To date, LitterStopper has recorded nearly one million littered items, collected over 4,200 cleans.
LitterStopper rivals Wikipedia, ASPIRE (Advisory System for Processing Information & Resource Exchange) could be seen as the Tinder of waste, offering businesses the opportunity to trade their waste as a resource.
See also www.litterstopper.com for all data
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