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? Councils call for cash-for-cans scheme as recycling crisis deepens – Australia
Posted on August 24, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Councils call for cash-for-cans scheme as recycling crisis deepens
A coalition of local councils is demanding the state government introduce a reward program for collecting bottles and containers as a way of fixing the state’s ailing recycling system.
Melbourne City Council is among those calling for a container deposit scheme after it was forced to dump tonnes of recycling material in landfill due to the closure of one of Victoria’s biggest recycling companies.
Littered drink containers make up about 30% of litter volume. This shows a #cashforcontaniersVic would make solve a good portion of this litter debarcle the state government (both sides) has gotten the state into. We’d go from about 20% recycling to over 80%. It is that simple.
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