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? 10 of the World’s Most Polluting Brands
Posted on November 27, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe latest Global Brand Audit Report from Break Free From Plastic has revealed the top 10 most polluting companies in the world. Unsurprisingly, the three biggest offenders were corporate behemoths…
Source: 10 of the World’s Most Polluting Brands
- Coca-Cola, with 11,372 pieces in 37 countries
- Nestlé, with 4,846 pieces in 31 countries
- PepsiCo, with 3,362 pieces in 28 countries
- Mondelēz International, with 1,023 pieces in 23 countries
- Unilever, with 3,328 pieces in 21 countries
- Mars, with 543 pieces in 20 countries
- Procter & Gamble, with 1,160 pieces in 18 countries
- Colgate-Palmolive, with 642 pieces in 18 countries
- Philip Morris International, with 2,239 pieces in 17 countries
- Perfetti van Melle, with 1,090 pieces in 17 countries
No Surprises here. These big corporations have to start taking responsibility for the rubbish their products make. The argument they have sold the product so they have no more involvement in it is nonsense. If they were not around we would not have their rubbish, so their presence and rubbish have a strong correlation. A plastics tax would be one way to solve this as it would drive them to seek alternative more environmentally acceptable materials. But while plastic is cheap and plentiful, a greedy corporation will continue to abuse it as a material.
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