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? Bottles are tickets to ride – China
Posted on July 8, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWhile incentive ideas are a really good and effective way to get the public to return their plastic waste to a recycling center so the plastic can be reused and not wasted in a landfill, there has to be a reciprocating component that puts some of the responsibility on the manufacturers and sellers of the plastic bottle. If subway fares are given out, that is government funds (i.e public funds) that are being used to correct a problem. The bottle manufacturers are getting off scott free from any ownership of this problem. They should be the ones giving out (paying for) the subway coupons. After all the public is doing the collection work to get their plastic waste back to them so they can make more bottles.
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