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? Pepsi boosts recycled PET usage -USA
Posted on September 30, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPepsiCo Inc. increased its use of food grade recycled PET by 23 percent last year compared to the year before.
The Purchase, N.Y.-based company used 134 million pounds of the material, according to a newly released sustainability report.
The soft drink giant also reported it cut its packaging by 89 million pounds in 2014 from 2013.
PepsiCo further indicated it diverted 93 percent of its waste from landfills. This surpasses the company’s 90 percent goal
Will they support a container deposit scheme though which will take recycling of empty bottles from around 10% to over 80%? That would be a real sustainable step.
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