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? Packaging reform: one country, one system – Australia
Posted on April 14, 2026 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsSource: Packaging reform: one country, one system – PKN Packaging News
Packaging reform has been on and off Australia’s policy agenda for more than two decades. Industry has talked, reviewed, trialled, consulted, and debated. Voluntary approaches have helped start the journey, but the outcomes tell us they haven’t delivered what Australia needs.
We missed our 2025 National Packaging Targets, plastic recycling remains too low, recycled content sits below where it should be, and more than a million tonnes of plastic packaging ends up in landfill every year.
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