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? ExxonMobil sues Bonta, NGOs over chemical recycling claims – USA
Posted on January 10, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsExxonMobil Corp. is firing back at California Attorney General Rob Bonta and environmental groups, filing a lawsuit accusing them of defaming its chemical recycling technology.
Source: ExxonMobil sues Bonta, NGOs over chemical recycling claims | Plastics News
Bonta and the U.S. proxies — the former for political gain and the latter pawns for the foreign interests — have engaged in a deliberate smear campaign against ExxonMobil, falsely claiming that ExxonMobil’s effective and innovative advanced recycling technology is a ‘false promise’ and ‘not based on truth,'” the lawsuit said.
Bonta, however, said ExxonMobil was trying to shift attention away from its actions.
“This is another attempt from ExxonMobil to deflect attention from its own unlawful deception,” the California Department of Justice said, in a statement. “The attorney general is proud to advance his lawsuit against ExxonMobil and looks forward to vigorously litigating this case in court.”
The Sierra Club said ExxonMobil is trying to intimidate the NGOs and is “clearly confused about the difference between defamation and accountability.”
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