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? 
Glasgow-based event venue joins Coke recycling scheme
Posted on March 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Glasgow-based event venue joins Coke recycling scheme.
These recycle zones are good and public education is also good. But all the recycle zones represent only a fraction of the bottle consumption areas. Coke getting big headlines about doing something good is a bit of spin really. They could be doing so much more to benefit their image and our environment.
Consider this, if a bottle deposit scheme was in place and Coke collected all the bottles from these recycle centers, then Coke would redeem then for the deposit back. This would be another source of income for Coke. Making money off their own bottles! This is what happens in South Australia, where Coke makes several millions of dollars a year off their own bottles.
Yet they still fight these container deposit schemes every chance they get.
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