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? California pushes for caps to be tethered to plastic bottles – USA
Posted on February 16, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsTechnology hurdles
Does the technology exist? The beverage industry’s chief lobbying group says no, it’s not well-developed yet.
Fredericka McGee, the vice president of California government affairs for the American Beverage Association, told a Jan. 8 Assembly committee hearing that the industry is “clearly not opposed to the use of a tethered cap” but did oppose Stone’s legislation because it’s “an unworkable mandate.”
Beverage-makers agree waste is a problem but see technical hurdles, she said.
“There is some work to be done, clearly, but … we can’t solve that problem if we don’t have the technology to do it,” she said. “Carbonated drinks and hot-fill drinks, which is what this bill provides for, still there is no technology available right now to provide for a tethered cap.”
What stall tactics from the beverage industry. A tethered cap could be drawn up on an CAD type program in a couple of hours. It would cost them a few cents more is probably more their concern than concern for the environment that their products are polluting far too much.
What about bottle labels on plastic bottles too. There are more bottle labels floating around the environment than plastic caps even. Another failing of the beverage industry.
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