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? Plastic bottle recycling dips slightly – Plastics News
Posted on November 4, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPost-consumer plastic bottle recycling dipped slightly in 2015 — the first drop in 25 years — at a time described as being difficult for the industry.A new report from a pair of trade groups, the Association of Plastic Recyclers and the American Chemistry Council, shows the overall
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Post-consumer plastic bottle recycling dipped slightly in 2015 — the first drop in 25 years — at a time described as being difficult for the industry.
A new report from a pair of trade groups, the Association of Plastic Recyclers and the American Chemistry Council, shows the overall recycling rate fell to 31.1 percent last year, down from 31.7 percent in 2014.
Imagine what a container deposit scheme would do when bottle recycling rose to over 80%. But as we know the bottle industry doesn’t like that as their profits come before any recycling measures. They need to be incentivised otherwise.
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