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? Barriers to beverage industry circularity are complex – Australia
Posted on February 1, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Barriers to beverage industry circularity are complex – Inside Waste
The CDS tide of container scope is turning. As little as four years ago when the NSW scheme was kicked off, the government’s primary objective was to reduce litter. Today there is a nationwide shift to viewing, thinking and forecasting CDS as a strategic asset towards materials’ recovery and supporting all federal and state targets towards recycled content. In short, there is room in a CDS for every type of recyclable packaging.
This would be a great way to reduce plastic waste by consumers. If all the common plastic containers had a refundable deposit on it, then so many more units would be returned to drop off centres for recycling.
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