Posted on February 12, 2020 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act — 5Gyres.org
“Plastic pollution is a crisis that affects our communities, our waterways, and even our bodies,” Udall said. “Our children are already bearing the cleanup costs of mountains of plastic waste –...
Continue reading this entry → Posted on February 2, 2020 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: Victoria will get cash-for-cans, container deposit scheme
After many long years of doing nothing, the State government has finally announced a container deposit scheme to give consumers 10 cents back on their drink bottle or can. Every other state...
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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.
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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?