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? Provinces net $143M in recycling revenue: Report – Canada
Posted on September 4, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsProvinces net $143M in recycling revenue: Report | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.
According to the new report, Canadian provinces collect approximately 73 to 75 per cent of their aluminum cans, 80 to 83 per cent of non-refillable glass, and 58 to 62 per cent of PET plastic drink bottles.
Refillable beer bottles continue to be collected at a rate of 98 per cent, which brings the total collection rate for all beverage containers up to 72 per cent, twice that of the U.S., the report says.
This is good progress that Canada is making. Far better than their southern neighbours.
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