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? Bottled water brand EartH20’s sustainability message extends to plastics -Oregon
Posted on September 13, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe company used to have empty bottles trucked to its plant constantly, first virgin resin bottles and then, about four years ago, 100-percent recycled content bottles.
It was then about three years ago that the company invested in blow molding machines and started buying recycled PET preforms to cut down on transportation. Another year passed before EartH20 made another investment to start making its own recycled PET preforms.
Now the company has said it has gone even further this year by being able to source recycled flake from Orpet LLC, a St. Helens, Ore.-based plastic recycler that reprocesses post-consumer PET captured through the state’s bottle bill program.
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