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? PepsiCo moves to 100% recyclable for snacks range – Australia
Posted on May 7, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations“We are proud to have achieved the first step – designing 100 per cent of our snacks packaging to be recyclable – meeting Australia’s 2025 National Packaging Target four years ahead of schedule.
“Increased recycling rates are critical to the success of a circular economy for soft plastics. Key to this is making packaging recyclable and easy to recycle,” says Vandita Pandey, PepsiCo ANZ chief marketing officer.
It is not the best solution to our plastics problem when a company only has to change the writing on its packaging labels to be able to say they are meeting new government guide lines.
And we need better terminology here. The above is ‘down cycling’, not proper recycling. In Recycling, the material being recycled would be able to be remade into other packaging labels. That is what gives a circular economy. Down cycling will never lead to a circular economy. You can only go down 2-3 times and then the material has to scrapped. So this is only delaying the inevitable of disposing of plastic to a landfill or WTE facility.
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