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? 
Sydney-based startup making recycling the tricky stuff easy – Australia
Posted on March 29, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
In Sydney, there is a startup who has diverted four million pieces of soft plastic, 65 tonnes of clothes, and a total of 163,000 kilos of waste from landfill, in two years: RecycleSmart.
RecycleSmart is an innovative, on-demand recycling service that collects tricky recyclables such as soft plastics, clothes, E-waste and problem waste from resident’s doorsteps for FREE!
Their user-friendly approach works just like Uber. Once residents have packed all their recyclables into a bag, they can book a Power Pickup for a time that suits them. All they have to do is leave the bag at their front door. Then, the items will be collected and dropped off in the right location for them to be recycled. They don’t even need to be home, it’s genius!
RecycleSmart has partnered with 13 Sydney councils. It’s free for the user if they begin a subscription. Why? “We’re here to make recycling easy, fun and engaging. If the residents commit to recycling regularly, then we do it for free”, said Giorgio Baracchi CEO & Co-Founder.
With the RecycleSmart app, the residents also gain access to the most comprehensive recycling database in Australia, the Recyclopedia. They can easily search amongst a list of over 200 household items and find exactly where they should dispose of it, depending on where they live.
The simplicity of the service encourages people to recycle things that may have otherwise been thrown away.
The companies that make these difficult to recycle items need to be paying for their collection and drop off at a appropriate recycle centre as a minimum.
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