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? Local campaign targets Inner West Courier -Australia
Posted on June 16, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsBY CHARLOTTE GRIEVE A group of Inner Western Sydney residents have banded together to launch a campaign targeting the “unnecessary” plastic wrapping of their
Source: Local campaign targets Inner West Courier | Altmedia
According to UTIWC’s petition, “Sydney’s landfill is almost full” and with new reports of over 8 million tons of plastic being dumped into our oceans each year, plastic wastage is becoming a leading environmental concern.
Every week, News Corp wraps more than 80,000 Inner West Couriers in plastic, amounting to more than 4 million pieces of plastic each year.
“You could cover Tasmania with a year’s worth of plastic used to wrap the Inner West Courier,” said Ms Frenchville.
Not only does the plastic fail to protect the paper from the rain, plastic-wrapped couriers are a nightmare to recycle.
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