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? Industry rallies against national deposit scheme – Australia
Posted on June 3, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsIndustry rallies against national deposit scheme – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
Former journalist Gabriel Lafitte says he has seen the scare campaign all before.
“It sounded as though it was a genuine attempt to set up recycling of tin cans and in fact they were being chucked down a hole in the ground and they weren’t at all serious.”
He was hired by BHP and others 40 years ago to run a PR lobby called the Steel Can People.
His job, he soon discovered, was to switch responsibility for recycling away from companies onto the consumer.
“It sounded as though it was a genuine attempt to set up recycling of tin cans and in fact they were being chucked down a hole in the ground and they weren’t at all serious,” he said.
“It was simply to fob off the prospect of legislation that might actually require them to behave in a more environmentally responsible manner.”
Mr Lafitte blew the whistle – publicising the scam – which resulted in a parliamentary inquiry.
Fingers crossed for Australia that the politicians do not cower down to industry lobbying again and have the political will this time to make a cleaner Australia and help the economy out with new jobs at the same time.
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