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? Focus on CO2 to drive future of plastics – Australia
Posted on November 18, 2021 by DrRossH in GeneralExtracting more recyclables from the waste stream, the relevant ratios of recycled content, and the merits of chemical recycling were key topics covered by Kosior as he made his message clear: a focus on CO2 should drive all future decisions related to plastics and recycling.
Speaking at the Australian-New Zealand Chapter of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) event – ‘Plastics and the Circular Economy – The Virtual Edition 2021’, Kosior opened his session by outlining the importance of cutting greenhouse gas emission levels and annual flows of plastic into the oceans, and emphasised future challenges faced as oil companies focus on creating more plastic as demand for oil-based fuel wanes.
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