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? AFGC says 100,000+ households ready to join NPRS – Australia
Posted on May 14, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe Australian Food & Grocery Council’s (AFGC) CEO Tanya Barden has called for urgent solutions to soft plastics recycling in Australia.
“The REDcycle scheme was ambitious and well-intended, but the initiative relied heavily on the public’s willingness to return their soft plastics waste to store, and at its peak, was only capturing roughly four percent of soft plastics recycling in circulation.
“We’re now looking to expand the trials into larger-scale pilots, with a further 100,000+ households set to join the scheme from late 2023,” said Barden. “This phased approach will provide opportunity for domestic advanced recycling infrastructure to mature at pace with the scheme, and ensure it has the appropriate processing capacity required to deal with the increased volume of soft plastics recycling.”
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