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? Partnership helps Coke push ahead with plant-based PET
Posted on September 29, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News – Partnership helps Coke push ahead with plant-based PET.
People need to know that this is partially a greenwashing sham. A plastic bottle made from plants is still a plastic bottle, with a greenwashed label. The Plant bottle does nothing at all to address the huge pollution Cokes plastic bottles make. They litter everywhere. The bottles sink in water so how many countless bottles are polluting the bottom of our lakes and oceans? Coke continually ignores this problem they are making. Not only do they ignore it they spend a lot of money on legal and false advertising campaings to prevent the introduction of a container deposit scheme that would stop over 80% of this problem in just a few months and cost Coke next to nothing. The most recent case of this is going on in Australia at the moment where a national container law is up for discussion.
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