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? POLL: Metro Vancouver residents strongly against incineration proposal- Canada
Posted on September 24, 2014 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalPOLL: Metro Vancouver residents strongly against incineration proposal
Before they do this, they need to put some of the cost this will be back on to the people who are responsible for making this waste in the first place, namely the manufacturers. This is a classic case of the need of an EPR program. Getting the manufacturers to contribute to the cost of all this recycling is essential. If they want to not pay more then they should look at products that don’t make unnecessary waste in the first place. A company like Coke is a classic example. Coke needs to be a support of a container deposit scheme. A CDS would remove over 80% of the littered bottles from Canada public lands.
Putting a waste surcharge on manufactures will be a big driver for them to reduce the packaging, and other waste their products make. that is what we should be striving for in the first place. Up till now the manufacturers have not been held responsible at all for the consequences of the waste from their products. Now it is time to do so.
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