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? CFIB warns of red tape war over Nova Scotia’s stewardship proposal
Posted on September 24, 2014 by DrRossH in GeneralCFIB warns of red tape war over Nova Scotia’s stewardship proposal.
CFIB states that the costs of recycling or disposal for a long list of designated products would become the responsibility of the businesses who sell them – without any corresponding drop in the property taxes that already fund these services.
CFIB fears a red tape disaster, and notes problems experienced in British Columbia as that province expands its own stewardship programs.
Finally someone is talking the best way to handle the issue of waste from products. EPR is where all this has to be managed. Pushing some of the disposal costs back on to manufacturers will drive manufacturers to come up with better ways to make products that don’t result in as much unnecessary waste packaging or product life issues. Plus if their products are causing waste issues in the public sector then they have to help pay for the management of this waste collection and correct disposal.
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