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 tackles plastic pollution with $50 million fund – Australia
Posted on March 22, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe CSIRO has pledged to tackle the problem of plastic pollution and reduce plastic waste by 80% in this decade. $50 million is to be invested in the organisation’s Ending Plastic Waste Mission, with the funding coming from government, university, industry, the CSIRO and other sources. This mission will involve research and development to change how Australia makes, uses, recycles and disposes of plastics.
Only 12% of the one million tonnes of single-use plastics that Australians use each year ends up being recycled and around three-quarters of the plastic found on the country’s famous coastlines is single-use plastics. Global plastic is predicted to double by 2040, which means that a countrywide approach is required to tackle the waste issue.
“The Ending Plastic Waste Mission will bring together the whole innovation system, from government, industry and academia, to turn science into solutions that will benefit the environment and create economic opportunities for Australia,” said CSIRO’s Chief Executive, Dr Larry Marshall.
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