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 tax collects €7.2 billion in 2023, 22 EU states dodge full payment
Posted on September 19, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA new report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has revealed that 22 out of 27 EU member states have underestimated the amount of non-recycled plastic packaging waste they produced. That has resulted in a €1.1 billion revenue gap in the plastic tax at EU level, which collected a total…
Source: Plastic tax collects €7.2 billion in 2023, 22 EU states dodge full payment | Sustainable Plastics
That has resulted in a €1.1 billion revenue gap in the plastic tax at EU level, which collected a total of €7.2 billion in 2023, 4% of the EU’s total revenue, the report found.
The European Union introduced a plastic levy of €0.80 per kg of non-recycled plastic packaging waste on Jan. 1, 2021. Intended to create an incentive to reduce plastic waste, the legislation obliges all EU member states to pay the levy. Member states are free to decide how they finance the levy: with the state budget, or through plastic taxes, extended producer responsibility (EPR) fees, littering levies, or other contributions. Countries make contributions based on forecasts of non-recycled waste produced, two years before the designated year.
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