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? Healthy hospitals: The new thinking helping healthcare minimise its climate impact – New Zealand
Posted on November 1, 2021 by DrRossH in GeneralIn 2017, just after New Zealand had banned single-use supermarket plastic bags, Oliver Hunt was looking for a master’s project when he realised healthcare waste must be a problem on the same level. That project became Medsalv, his company that takes used single-use medical devices from hospitals around New Zealand and re-manufactures them so they can be safely used again.
He realised the waste produced by surgeries mostly goes unseen. With over 330,000 surgeries per year around the country, hospital waste often finds its way into landfills.
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