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? NSW EPA hand out $3 million to help combat landfill crisis Australia
Posted on May 27, 2025 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalNSW EPA to deliver local waste and recycling solutions, supporting the transition to a circular economy and taking waste away from landfill.
Source: NSW EPA hand out $3 million to help combat landfill crisis – Inside Waste
“Councils are at the forefront of managing waste for their communities and they are pivotal to our state’s transition to a circular economy,” Geddes said. “Without action, Sydney is set to run out of landfill space by 2030. We need to shift our current thinking and approach to waste and explore new ways to reuse and recycle products to keep them out of landfill.
Geddes said the funding will help deliver circular waste solutions across a diverse range of projects like eliminating waste in construction and council operations, trialling services to divert waste from landfill and researching new technology to help recover or reuse materials.
It is a great start to get mateiral out of landfill to a ready to use state again, but finding the market to take the recycled material and make products from it is huge problem. Esp. for a country that manufactures only a small portion of what is consumed.
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