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? Landfill Levies – Different jurisdictions use levies to achieve specific outcomes
Posted on July 15, 2013 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalLandfill levies (or taxes, depending on where you live) are added to the tipping fee at a landfill to increase the cost of disposal to a point where diversion becomes more economically attractive. There are a number of reasons why jurisdictions impose landfill levies. They help preserve landfill capacity which is expensive (or in some locations virtually impossible to replace) and they support local industries that need recycled materials as feedstocks. (Landfill bans are also used to achieve this objective.) Levies may help meet regulatory obligations (e.g., EU Landfill Directive; EU Packaging Directive, etc.), raise funds for diversion infrastructure and/or simply to meet diversion targets.
Landfill taxes and levies are in place across Canada, the US and Europe. The amount of the levy varies depending on the policy objective. The way the funds are collected differs among countries and jurisdictions, as shown in these examples: (See link)
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