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? CSIRO-led study shows plastics can be ‘pervasive’ in food supply – Australia
Posted on May 21, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsAustralia-based science agency the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has released a new report claiming that plastics could be a threat to food safety and security.
Source: CSIRO-led study shows plastics can be ‘pervasive’ in food supply
The study found that such plastics may have an adverse impact on the security and safety of food on a global scale.
CSIRO analytical chemist and food safety specialist Dr Jordi Nelis, who is also the research paper’s lead author, said that plastics can enter the human food chain via several different paths, ingestion being one such example.
However, one of the main pathways found was through food packaging and processing itself.
Nelis said: “Fresh food for example can be plastic-free when it’s picked or caught but contain plastics by the time it’s been handled, packaged and makes its way to us.
“Machinery, cutting boards, plastic wrapping can all deposit MNP onto our food that we then consume.
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