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? Plastic Limiting Regulations Archives - Plastic Waste Solutions
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WMRR welcomes Queensland’s single-use plastics roadmap; calls for national harmonisatoin
Posted on July 5, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWMRR Medial release 5 July 22 The Queensland government has today announced that it will ban plastic microbeads, polystyrene packing peanuts and plastic-stemmed cotton buds by 1 September 2023, unveiling its proposed five...
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Stop it and Swap it this Plastic Free July – Australia
Posted on July 4, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource To mark the beginning of Plastic Free July, the NSW Government is partnering with 17 organisations to help communities around the state stop using single-use plastic. From 1 June, lightweight single-use plastic bags were banned in NSW. From November, the...
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Woolworths and Big W are phasing out reusable plastic shopping bags. Here’s what that means for shoppers. Australia
Posted on June 5, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource y this time next year, you won't be able to buy a reusable plastic shopping bag from Woolworths or Big W. The Woolworths Group estimates this will cut more than 9,000 tonnes of plastic bags from circulation each year. What are...
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Scotland has become the first UK nation to enforce a ban on single-use plastics.
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HOUSE DEMOCRATS SEEK CRACKDOWN ON MICROPLASTICS – USA
Posted on May 27, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource House Democrats want to crack down on small plastic pellets that have grown notorious for their links to environmental contamination. Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation yesterday targeting the discharge of the pellets, often called "nurdles," into the environment...
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NSW bans single-use plastic bags, ACT cracks down on straws – Australia
Posted on May 25, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource New South Wales will introduce the first of its single-use plastic bans next week, while the ACT Government prepares to broaden the bans it introduced last year. New South Wales remains the last state or territory yet to crack down...
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Plastic fruit sticker example of what is wrong – Australia
Posted on May 24, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource Would the maniac who designed the first plastic fruit sticker please stand up! Why is it that every banana, orange, apple, kiwi fruit, and other piece of fruit you buy now comes with a plastic sticker attached to it? I...
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UK Introduces Virgin plastics tax.
Posted on April 27, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource April 2022 is when this incentive to push companies to use recycled plastic . The new law proposes a Plastics Packaging Tax which “will apply at a rate of £200 per tonne of plastic packaging which does not contain at...
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Review finds packaging regulation fails to drive change
Posted on April 26, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic Waste NewsSource Time is ticking to resolve the serious flaws that exist in the regime for managing packaging waste, a review of the National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) for Used Packaging Materials (UPM), released by the Federal Government, has found. National Waste and...
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No time to waste – Australia
Posted on April 21, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource In the past five years, packaging manufacturing, disposal and resource recovery have come to the forefront of the national discussion surrounding sustainability and product stewardship, particularly in food and beverages, writes Geoff Parker, Australian Beverages Council CEO. Gone are the...
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