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? 
Paint up for stewardship treatment – Australia
Posted on July 21, 2014 by DrRossH in Stewardship Waste Programs
Paint up for stewardship treatment – WASTE & RESOURCES.
Here is what appears to be an excellent example of industry and government working together to bring about a good change for the environment. Getting rid of old paint has always been a problem. Being a liquid, it is restricted by so many regulations.
Now in Australia, the paint manufacturers have come together to agree to put a surcharge on paint. The surcharge would go towards setting up a funding centres where paint could be properly disposed of.
Industry is strongly supportive of the scheme. The founding members of the APMF – DuluxGroup, Haymes Paints, PPG Industries and Valspar – making up approximately 85% of the Australian paint market – have taken a leadership role in the development of a national scheme.
So one might ask what is the difference between this and a container deposit scheme (CDS) for drink bottles? There is none. Except the greed of Coke and their irresponsible behaviour to trash Australia so they can keep their perceived profit level. Why does the government support a paint deposit scheme yet be hesitant to impose a CDS on drink bottles? It is a good question.
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