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? Cash for cans: NSW MPs make video appeal
Posted on May 2, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWith a decision due on Monday, two NSW government MPs have appeared in a video urging their cabinet colleagues to vote for a 10 cent “cash for containers” scheme.
via Cash for cans: NSW MPs make video appeal.
But cabinet will choose one of two models. The first is a container deposit scheme, designed by an advisory committee, that offers 10 cents for each drink container returned, covers 150ml to 1 litre containers, and collects containers at depots, reverse vending machines, kerbside recycling, or through a school or charity.
The second is an industry proposal that doesn’t offer a financial incentive to collect containers, but includes 100 reverse-vending machines, more bins, and gives community groups $300 to fill a trailer with rubbish
Lets hope common sense wins here and a CDS is put in place. What industry is proposing is very little and just promotes littering and more cost to the public by having them pay for emptying a few more recycle bins. All of Australia needs to tell Coke to face up to reality your products are littering our lands and water and we want it to stop and a CDS will do that quite easily.
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