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? Companies start using plastic credits to offset waste in Thailand
Posted on December 18, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsDiversey buying Corsair Group’s plastic credits to offset plastic waste generated by its packaging
Source: Companies start using plastic credits to offset waste in Thailand | Sustainable Plastics
Diversey, a packaging company part of US-based chemicals company Solenis, and Thailand-based chemical recycler Corsair are partnering on the use of plastics credits.
Plastic credits are market-based mechanisms designed to incentivise and finance the reduction, recovery, or recycling of plastic waste. Similarly to carbon credits, they can be traded between companies that produce and reduce plastic waste. Companies can purchase these credits to offset their plastic usage from firms that have collected or recycled plastic waste.
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