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? Spain to introduce deposit return scheme for plastic bottles
Posted on November 26, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe Spanish government confirmed it failed to meet the 70% separate collection rate for plastic bottles in 2023. It is now mandated by law to introduce a deposit return scheme
Source: Spain to introduce deposit return scheme for plastic bottles | Sustainable Plastics
The Spanish government confirmed it failed to meet the 70% separate collection rate for plastic bottles in 2023. It is now mandated by law to introduce a deposit return scheme
Eunomia argued that 2021 figures released by Spain’s packaging producer responsibility organisation (PRO), Ecoembes, are largely inflated. Ecoembes claims a 71% separate collection rate for small plastic bottles in 2021, but Eunomia’s calculations put the rate at only 36%, well below the 70% target mandated by Spanish law for 2023.
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