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? PET bottles to feature in BBC food programme
Posted on November 28, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe BBC’s The Foods That Make Billions: Liquid Gold is due to focus on the growth of bottled water and will examine the role that PET bottles have played in the multi-billion pound industry. Full Story
The plastic water bottle is a majour pollution problem. These bottles get littered everywhere. This problem is partially owned by the bottlers as well as the careless litterer. The bottling companies well know that their products are going to end up as litter. Yet at the moment they have no responsibility for this. They use oil/gas to make a bottle that a consumer will use for a few minutes then discard to take many 100s of years to break down. Does that make sense in any ones mind?
Container deposit schemes need to be put in place, as only then will recycling rates get over 80% or more. The bottling companies say education of people to improve recycling is the best, as that lets them off the hook for any ownership of the problem.
For bottled water, bottles smaller than 2 litres should be banned from production. That would get rid of 80% of water bottle litter immediately with that one simple move without denying the consumer access to bottled water
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