Australia moves closer to bag bans

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Coffee Industry Responsible for Significant Plastic Litter

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. Read More...
How Much Is Enough?

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?

Posted on December 16, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations

Sydney, Australia — Australia has moved a step closer to banning single-use high density polyethylene bags after a meeting of the country’s top environment ministers.Federal environment minister Josh Frydenberg recently met in Sydney with his eight counterparts from all Australian

Source: Australia moves closer to bag bans – Plastics News

Jeff Angel, director of the Sydney-based Total Environment Center and a director of the Boomerang Alliance, which represents a cluster of environmental groups, complained that NSW and Victoria are “throwing up meaningless rhetoric to delay action along the entire east coast.

It is difficult to come to a rational reason as to why Victoria does not commit to a plastic bag ban. So the solution must lie with an irrational (political) reason. With so many studies been done now, a federal senate inquiry (that interviewed dozens of experts) strongly recommending the states adopt a bag ban very soon, numerous submissions by the people of Victoria, other states having one and Vic just vacillating, it makes our politicians look incompetent. Maybe they don’t care about what the public think but are more concerned about campaign donations. That would explain their behaviour

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