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? QLD gathers data on rubbish for Container Deposit Scheme – Australia
Posted on April 19, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsQueensland government is looking in garbage trucks to analyse what’s being thrown out to inform a future Container Deposit Scheme.
via QLD gathers data on rubbish for Container Deposit Scheme – GovNews.
“The Palaszczuk Government is also closely watching the CDS discussions in NSW where the Government has committed to introducing a CDS by 2017,” Dr Miles said.
He said if the Queensland government does decide to introduce a container deposit scheme, it would be desirable that the two schemes are consistent in their key design elements.
Lets hope Qld can do the right thing too and get these far too many litter cans and bottles out of our ocean, parks and off roadsides. Plus the 70% approx. that get dumped to landfill and not recycled. That is a large resource lost our economy is facing.
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