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? Keep America Beautiful and Dr Pepper Snapple Group Put Sustainability in Action with Recycling Bin Grant Program
Posted on March 23, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News“We are pleased to work with Keep America Beautiful on efforts to make recycling more accessible for park guests,” said Tim Gratto, vice president of sustainability for DPS. “Recycling is a shared responsibility for consumers, companies and communities, and we see this partnership as a meaningful way for DPS to be a part of the solution.”
It is good to see people agree on the responsibility of the disposal of drink bottles is the responsibility of the PRODUCER and the CONSUMER. Too often producers shun any responsibility of this and that is why we have such a large litter problem of drink bottles. Producers have to be held accountable for this too as it is their products that are perceived by the consumer to have no value hence they get too easily littered.
Given the above, $300,000 for the placement of more recycling bins is a minimalistic attempt at best. For a country the size of the USA, $300K will not go very far. Plus who then is setting up the infrastructure to go empty these recycling bins in the parks which presumably will be a long way from any urban collection routes.
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