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? 
South Australia’s CDS reform needs direction – Australia
Posted on December 21, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: South Australia’s CDS reform needs direction – Inside Waste
Beverage industry control of Australia’s CDSs is now at the core of the policy debates across all states and the SA paper begins examining mechanisms to loosen this grip on their scheme. As a reminder: For every 10 per cent less recycling in Victoria’s CDS, drink producers would have saved around $50 million per annum through avoided refunds and recycling fees. This is big-coin, and significant enough motivator for producers to try and control a state’s CDS to keep return rates suppressed.
By only allowing a relatively inconvenient network of collection points to be established or maintained, and/or advocating to keep the refund value low, big beverage producers achieve lower rates of consumer engagement and therefore return rates than would otherwise be the case.
NSW, the ACT and soon Victoria and Tasmania have dealt with this obvious conflict of interest by directly contracting the recycling industry for collection networks inherently motivated to maximise return rates, as they get paid per container collected.
In Victoria the beverage producers have been lobbying hard to have control of the CDS operation and have been putting out stories that the government in their split scheme will be depriving community groups from income from returning their own collected containers. However it is just a guise to cause a result of reduced returns over all, saving the producers from having to pay out on non returns.
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