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? Federal Court cans NT’s deposit scheme – Australia
Posted on March 6, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsFederal Court cans NT’s deposit scheme – Yahoo!7 Finance Australia.
This is a sad day for Austalian politics and the people. Coke used a quirk in the law to allow them to keep litering all over Australia and now with out any semblence of resposibility. The quirk will not apply to a federal scheme however so hoepfully that will go through at a national level.
In the state of SA where there is a deposit scheme, they get over 80% recycling. Other states 20-25%. A large difference. A deposit scheme is the lowest cost way to reduce bottle litter. It costs Coke nothing, it costs the government nothing and only the consumer who does not care about getting 10cents back is the one who pays 10 cents more.
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