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? ‘Chasing arrows’ called ‘problematic’ as EPA, states vie for tougher green marketing guides for plastics – USA
Posted on May 26, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe Federal Trade Commission is hearing calls from some state governments and the EPA to limit the chasing arrows on plastic resin ID codes and take a skeptical view on green marketing for chemical recycling.
Codes defended, challenged
One area where the AGs and others pressed the FTC was in the use of the chasing arrows symbol around the resin identification code on plastic packaging.
The EPA, in an April 20 filing to the FTC, called plastics a “significant problem” and said combining the resin code and chasing arrows “does not accurate represent recyclability as many plastics (especially 3-7) do not have end markets and are not financially viable to recycle.”
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