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? Government, environment and community groups will meet at a senate inquiry on Thursday to tackle the growing problem of marine plastic pollution-Australia
Posted on March 18, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeGovernment, environment and community groups will meet at a senate inquiry on Thursday to tackle the 34.9 billion pieces of visible plastic in Australian waters.
via If you have an average seafood diet you’re probably ingesting 11,000 bits of plastic every year.
“Underpinning the community’s frustration is the continued role of the Commonwealth, whose track record addressing our priority waste problems is littered with failure and a disturbing trend to misrepresent the scope of the problem.”
The Boomerang Alliance, along with groups like the Total Environment Centre, will use Thursday’s inquiry to call for a container deposit scheme, a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags and microbeads in laundry and cosmetic products, and continued enforcement of existing regulations.
We will see if the govt can make anything real of this. The prior record has been dismal.
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