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? 
Why private investment is key to a plastic circular economy – Australia
Posted on April 2, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingTo get to a future where plastic circularity is a scalable reality, significant investment needs to step up along the entire value chain or we will fail.
Source: Why private investment is key to a plastic circular economy
The dawn of the plastic age was a milestone in human development, driving our technological revolution, transforming industries, enabling innovation and saving lives — as well as making lives easier.
It now threatens to be a millstone, with runaway waste levels that are rising as our population increases and becomes more affluent. It is everywhere — in all industries, across food supply chains and sadly in our environment.
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