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? Concern rises over lack of progress as plastics treaty talks restart
Posted on April 21, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAs the talks move toward the fourth treaty meeting, optimistic voices argue that countries are prepared to move toward more specifics, a significant advancement from when the talks started in late 2022. But others are warning that the plastics treaty risks falling victim to the same decision-making by consensus process they say has thwarted the Paris climate agreement.
Source: Concern rises over lack of progress as plastics treaty talks restart | Plastics News
But he said there’s growing frustration among other nations that don’t want to rely only on consensus to make decisions.
“As we head into the next phase of negotiations, I don’t think that anybody expects that this can be fully addressed at Ottawa,” he said. “But what is clear is that there is growing public interest, a growing demand from states, to break open the bottlenecks that consensus is forcing us into and really begin addressing these challenges in more fundamental ways.”
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