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? 
AIP Conference : Search for willing partners – Australia
Posted on January 5, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: AIP Conference : Search for willing partners – Inside Waste
“You really need to be clever and find some end markets [for recycled materials],” he said. Lunn explained that it was those end markets that drive through to packaging design, and the designers need to understand the consumer and their motivations. “We can’t operate alone anymore. You need partnerships and need to find willing partners who are moving in the same direction as you.”
Is Australia too small to have end markets for waste plastic? The required infrastructure cost required to be set up to collect plastic waste and get it back to some remanufacturing facility for sorting and reprocessing would be substantial. Perhaps not viable. Where does that leave us?
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