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? Victorian Premier Denis Napthine backs cash-for-cans recycling scheme – Australia
Posted on March 25, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsVictorian Premier Denis Napthine backs cash-for-cans recycling scheme.
Premier Denis Napthine is quietly lobbying his NSW counterpart to join forces with Victoria to consider a cash-for-cans scheme across several states.
High-level talks between the Premier’s office and the O’Farrell government have taken place in recent weeks in a bid to garner support for a container deposit system, despite ongoing industry resistance. If such a plan were to be implemented, consumers could receive a 10¢ deposit for every can and bottle they returned to a recycling depot, as they do in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Let us all hope this goes through is spite of misleading and false information being spread by drink bottle companies.
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