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 will the White Man Learn he Cannot Eat Money? – Australia
Posted on October 4, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsOur planet is drowning in a deluge of plastic, and much of the food we eat is packaged in soft film plastics that are difficult and expensive to recycle. One company tackling that problem is Albury, NSW-based Plastic Forests, who recycle soft plastics into sustainable products.
David Hodge, managing director explains how the business developed. “Our goal is truly to make the world a better place. It’s so simple but we’re treating the planet badly and it’s unsustainable. I enjoy manufacturing, and I really enjoy inventing things. I like to do things no one has done before and I enjoy the challenge of a hard task.”
“2021 is going to be our year,” David says. “We’ve got products coming out for farmers as well as other types of business and consumer. All of our manufacturing is done locally. We’re the largest flexible recycling facility in Australia and the commitment we put into it was huge, but “build it and they will come,” as the saying goes!”
Let`s help them make it the planets year as well.
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