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-east Queensland city to send all recycling from yellow-top bins to landfill – Australia
Posted on April 23, 2018 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalAll recycling from the yellow-top bins will be dumped in landfill, after contractors asked for an extra $2 million.
Source: South-east Queensland city to send all recycling from yellow-top bins to landfill
All recycling placed in Ipswich City Council’s yellow top bins will now be dumped in landfill.
The council’s recycling contractors advised the current rate being charged would skyrocket if recycling was to continue.
It would have meant an increase in costs of $2 million per year, which could equate to a 1.5 to 2 per cent rate rise in Ipswich. (We would not call 2% rise in rates sky rocketing fees. It mans we are starting to pay the real cost of disposal)
Cr Wendt said since the ABC Four Corners program on waste was broadcast earlier this year, contamination rates of yellow-lid recycle bins had doubled.
The council will call tenders by midyear to bid on waste-to-energy projects to allow a portion of the city’s energy to be environmentally friendly.
Australia will have to make some big decisions now that it should have been looking at year ago. The recycling scheme will have to be expanded substantially to handle this large amount of recycling that is no longer going over seas. It is our rubbish we need to learn to deal with it and that does not mean putting it in landfills. Waste to Energy plants is a start. Waste reduction is the biggest factor to put in place. Paying the real cost of waste creation needs to occur as that will drive down waste generation (consumption) significantly.
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