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 Premier Mike Baird announces 2017 start date for cash for cans- Australia
Posted on June 18, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsNSW Premier Mike Baird announces 2017 start date for cash for cans.
NSW residents will be rewarded for collecting and returning bottles and cans to hundreds of reverse vending machines across NSW from July 2017, Premier Mike Baird will announce on Saturday.
The container deposit scheme is likely to generate $65 million a year for charities, schools and sporting groups, the Total Environment Centre projects.
Environment Minister Rob Stokes said it was a “historic decision” to move ahead with a scheme that had been put in the “too hard basket” by successive governments.
Polling shows 90 per cent support among NSW consumers for such a scheme. But Mr Baird has stared down fierce resistance from the beverages industry, which Fairfax Media revealed earlier this month had colluded in a fierce campaign against a container deposit policy.
Rival executives from Lion Nathan, Coca-Cola and Carlton and United Breweries held conference calls, shared emails and reported back on meetings with federal and state politicians, while the beverages council threatened attack advertising during the election, after Mr Stokes took the proposal to cabinet in December.
Lets hope that NSW can stay strong to fight down these litter producing bottle companies like Coke. This is a win for all Australians and to think that Coke is very against it just shows how irresponsible they are. What an awful lot of people it must be led by.
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