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? Coke to launch new 375ml PET bottle
Posted on March 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsCoke to launch new 375ml PET bottle.
This is just what we need yet another plastic bottle to pollute the environment with a manufacturer who cares little for the environment. To reduce plastic bottle pollution we should be banning bottles smaller than 2 liters, not letting manufacturers make smaller bottles which will result in more bottles being littered.
Coke talks about sustainability and green attitudes but that is all to do with the supply side which is their costs. It is nothing to do with the disposal side and the pollution problems their products cause. Why don’t they try to win praise by sponsoring bottle refund schemes, or paying for advertising campaigns to get consumer to recycle their bottles. Surely this would win them more customers that hiring lawyers to fight any attempt to reduce the pollution their products cause will do.
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