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? Neither plastics plan passes at Walmart, but cutback proposal gets stronger support – USA
Posted on June 13, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsAt Walmart Inc.’s June 5 annual shareholder meeting, both competing resolutions on plastics packaging failed to pass — but one emerged as the clear preference among shareholders.
Source: Neither plastics plan passes at Walmart, but cutback proposal gets stronger support | Plastics News
The meeting offered a rare chance for shareholders to vote on competing pro- and con- plastics proposals. A resolution asking the retailer to cut back on plastics packaging got 10 times the number of votes as another that urged the company to rethink and potentially step back from its plastics sustainability efforts.
Very bad of a major retailer retracking on commitements to reduce plastic packaging. Profits ruled!
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