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? Netherlands recycled content targets ‘unachievable’ without change
Posted on September 11, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsA new report found that the Netherlands is far from achieving its goal of producing all plastic packaging from recycled or renewable materials by 2050
Source: Netherlands recycled content targets ‘unachievable’ without change | Sustainable Plastics
Under the business-as-usual scenario, the demand for plastic packaging could increase by 17%, from 386,000 in 2022 to 451,000 in 2050.
Policies are required to achieve a fossil-free packaging system by 2050, the TNO concluded. It said the focus should be on the use of alternative raw materials, such as biomass or CO2 from carbon capture, and on further reducing the demand for packaging.
It would seem many other countries are in the same state, just not many are talking about it.
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