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? MPs agree increased plastics recycling targets – UK
Posted on December 1, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics & Rubber Weekly – MPs agree increased plastics recycling targets.
“The industry has real concerns about the consequences for UK employment when – and the industry does not believe it is a question of if – it fails to meet the target.”
He pointed out that the UK plastics industry employs 70,000 people so any damage could have a serious effect on jobs.
Almost every time industry gets pushed to do something they don’t like, they drag out the ‘theat of lost jobs’ excuse as if that is enough to allow them to not undertake the changes. What book have they been reading when almost everything else says that jobs in the UK will be created if the UK was to recycle more of its own plastic waste rather than ship it off shore for someone else. Politicians have to stand up to these unsubstantiated threats of job losses and make these companies do these changes as in the long run it will be better for them and for the public.
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