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? Quest for a national container deposit scheme rolls on
Posted on August 31, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsBusiness Environment Network – Quest for a national container deposit scheme rolls on.
Seems the politicians have backed off and put on hold for yet another year for the decision to introduce a national container deposit scheme (CDS) for Australia. The reasons they provided are not clear. Big business has lobbied against this so maybe that is the deciding factor.
Anyway it means another year of high volumes of littered plastic drink bottles across Australia. People who would have had jobs at the recycling stations will not have that work. Community groups who would have been fitted from bottle drives will not get those benefits.
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