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? 
Boomerang Alliance not excited about Plastic Pact – Australia
Posted on May 20, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: Boomerang Alliance not excited about Plastic Pact – Inside Waste
The launch of the Plastic Pact is not the major step in tackling the plastic waste crisis, according to the Boomerang Alliance.
“With only 13 per cent of plastic packaging being actually recycled and just 4 per cent with recycled content – there are some very big challenges ahead. We don’t believe the voluntary arrangements of the Plastic Pact and Packaging Covenant are sufficient and today we are releasing Plan B based on making the 2025 Pact and National Packaging targets mandatory in Australia,’’ said Jeff Angel, director of the Alliance.
‘’When a company says its packaging product is recyclable or compostable and even has an Australian Recycling Label, that does not mean it will be recycled in practice. It’s a small step and we have seen the repeated failure of voluntary schemes to make a major difference. With just a few years to 2025, we can’t waste time on case studies, pilots, workshops and more roadmaps.’’
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