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? 
When are we going to get a national framework on the circular economy? – Australia
Posted on October 18, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingAnd unlike the export bans, how do we make them both meaningful and effective? We need a national framework.
Source: When are we going to get a national framework on the circular economy? – Inside Waste
There is a lot of talk of creating a circular economy in Australia by 2030. Just like the export bans in 2019, this ‘target’ seems to be sneaking in and taking over Federal government language and possibly thinking, but what does that mean and how are we going to get there? And unlike the export bans, how do we make them both meaningful and effective? We need a national framework.
In Australia, I feel that we have not yet joined the dots with the link between the natural environment, energy, the ‘waste sector’ and carbon.
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