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? Asda switches Chosen By You salad dressings from glass to PET
Posted on May 27, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsWhen we get ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ where manufacturers are made responsible for the waste their products make, then I wonder if ASDS would be so keen on going from a benign glass to a last near forever plastic bottle.
Their only justification to do this is the savings they get on the freight costs to ship their product around. On the disposal side it is all negative. How are they telling people to dispose of this plastic bottle? Are they volunteering to pay to get the bottle back to a recycling centre?
Lastly the corporate catch all phrase, ‘brings great environmental benefits’. Yet they rarely quantify these statements, just hope people buy in to it. Introducing yet more plastic into the environment is simply bad for the environment.
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