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? Major US cities phasing out PS foam school lunch trays – USA
Posted on June 5, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPolystyrene foam trays will be swapped out for compostable plates at schools in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Miami and Orlando, Fla., next year. The change comes after two years of work on the part of the Urban School Food Alliance, the cooperative buying group formed by the school districts, and The Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.
Reusable plastic and melamine trays have been largely phased out of school cafeterias over the last decade, replaced with PS foam trays that end up in the trash — 225 million of them every year, the Alliance estimates.
This is great move but as the article says it requires a suitable disposal plant that will accept and process the compostable material before a difference is really made.
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