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? AUS Gov and CSIRO commit to war on plastic waste in Indo-Pacific – Australia
Posted on March 8, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: AUS Gov and CSIRO commit to war on plastic waste in Indo-Pacific
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have launched a new $1.3 million partnership to work with Indonesia to tackle plastic pollution in the Indo-Pacific.
The Plastics Innovation Hub Indonesia will bring together researchers, investors, businesses, and community and government leaders from the region to develop solutions to address the challenge of plastic waste in the oceans and waterways.
The Hub will draw on the latest technology to end plastic waste, such as the use of Artificial Intelligence to identify and trace pollution in waterways and harnessing enzymes to degrade PET plastic and microplastics.
Within the Indo-Pacific region, it is estimated there are between five and ten billion pieces of plastic on the coastline.
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