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? 
Freeing Trevor to drive the circular bus – Australia
Posted on February 22, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsSource: Freeing Trevor to drive the circular bus – Inside Waste
There is no chance we can achieve a Circular Economy by 2025, but achieving the 80 per cent diversion from landfill Target in the National Waste Action plan by 2030, is achievable and we must support it.
The economy is very efficient at mining, manufacturing, using and disposing of materials. The so called “Take, Make, Dispose” linear flow of materials. To be ‘circular’ our economy needs fixes at each end.
The front end “Design” side (what can be put into the economy) needs root and branch reform to allow for reuse and recycling a “end of life”. There is not a single law in Australia that requires design for recycling or reuse.
We know that 2025 targets are unachievable. They are targets, so there is no requirement even to implement them other than social pressure. like it or not the governments have to step in and do things industry will perceive as reducing their profits so will push back. But we have to do it. Change is always hard, but cheaper in the long run. That is where we need to think.
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