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? 
Sustainable living, Small Business Festival Victoria – Australia
Posted on August 1, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Case Study: Sustainable living, Small Business Festival Victoria | Business Victoria.
Fieldtech Solutions wins Small Business award in Victoria.
“We do what we do because we don’t want our children or our children’s children to face a world where plastic pollution and breakdown is a major environmental threat”
Fieldtech Solutions a small company in Australia that makes products for the contaminated land industry out of landfill-biodegradable of recycled plastic resin.
To many plastic products are used once and thrown away and that is not a sustainable practice but rather an irresponsible one. When they are thrown ‘away’ they do not go away but just go somewhere else to sit for many 100’s of years.
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