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? Pollution from plastic is a crisis and there is no simple solution
Posted on July 5, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingPlastic pollution is acknowledged as a global crisis. Some groups say recycling is not the solution.
Source: Pollution from plastic is a crisis and there is no simple solution | The Star
In a statement last month, Greenpeace USA said the UN negotiations should focus on drastically reducing plastic production, and not recycling, because of the “catalogue of peer-reviewed research and international studies concluding that recycling actually increases the toxicity of plastics.”
The report said plastic contains more than 13,000 chemicals, with at least 3,200 of them known to be hazardous to human health, quoting figures from a UN environment program briefing.
Greenpeace is recommending that production of plastic be capped and phased down, and said that plastic has no place in a circular economy.
Regardless of what side of the argument the UN negotiations land on, there’s no question that recycling is not an easy solution.
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