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? Ireland launches deposit return scheme
Posted on November 26, 2024 by DrRossH in GeneralThe scheme covers drinks in PET bottles and cans, excluding dairy
Source: Ireland launches deposit return scheme | Sustainable Plastics
The DRS in Ireland covers drinks in cans and PET bottles, excluding dairy, featuring a ‘Re-turn’ logo and ranging from 0.15 to 3 litres in size. Consumers pay a deposit of €0.15 for containers 0.15 to 0.5 litres in size, and €0.25 for those over 0.5 litres.
Ireland’s launch comes amid unprecedented activity in DRS implementation around the world, with the three months since Nov. 1, 2023, seeing four new DRSs launching (Victoria, Romania, Hungary and Ireland) and seven existing DRSs expanding (California, Germany, Connecticut, Austria, Quebec, Greenland and Queensland). The United Kingdom’s deposit return system is set to commence in 2025.
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