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? Food waste is an urgent problem that needs to be taken seriously – UK
Posted on October 1, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThis all sounds very moral, but lets not forget the tetra pack is one of the most unrecyclable packaging methods around. Manufacturers can’t hide behind the justification of only looking at the production side of their items to allow them to produce any type of packaging they want and not care about how it is to be disposed. For example the use of snack size or single serve tetra packs is an environmental disaster. If the company was really concerned about food preservation and the consequence of their packs on disposal they would only be pushing bulk packaging as that would achieve the food reservation status and d a lot less harm to the environment.
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