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? Bag recycling stories show there’s a lot to learn by tracking recyclables USA
Posted on July 7, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic RecyclingThere is a market for recyclables. But after years of trying, bags and flexible packaging are still struggling.
Source: Bag recycling stories show there’s a lot to learn by tracking recyclables | Plastics News
In July 2020, I wrote about a three-year project called the Beyond the Bag Initiative, supported by retailers, to come up with a solution to plastic bag issues.
“This seems like a great idea, assuming this is 1990. Coming in 2020, I have a feeling this ship has sailed, and the plastics industry missed the boat,” I wrote. “Single-use bags are convenient, reusable and recyclable. But not enough people recycle them, and they too frequently end up as litter. If we can’t recycle T-shirt bags, what hope is there to recycle other flexible packaging?”
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