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? Kansas county files class action lawsuit against resin companies and American Chemistry Council over plastics recycling claims – USA
Posted on December 6, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingFord County, Kansas, has initiated a class action lawsuit against nearly a dozen resin manufacturers and the American Chemistry Council, accusing them of misleading the public about the recyclability of plastics.
The suit also alleges that the petrochemical companies’ “false representations” around the recyclability of plastics have resulted in higher production levels of plastic products, more demand for them, inflated prices for plastic products and issues with plastic waste remediation.
The Ford County filing is the third recycling-based lawsuit to be filed in the last four months. In September, the state of California filed a lawsuit alleging the plastics sector has spent decades lying to the public.
ExxonMobil is specifically named in the California lawsuit, but the state attorney general left a placeholder in the filing, also naming unknown defendants who also allegedly violated the law. Those unnamed defendants will be added to the complaint once they are discovered, the lawsuit said.
Then in October, California’s Los Angeles County filed a separate lawsuit accusing PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. of deceiving the public about the recyclability of their plastic bottles and the environmental and health harms from the production and disposal of their plastics packaging.
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