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? TerraCycle pushes for more beach plastic collection – USA
Posted on March 24, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsNew Orleans — Organizers of a beach plastics recovery campaign expect to greatly expand collection efforts in the coming months to locations around the world.Recycling company TerraCycle Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. grabbed headlines earlier this year with a program that captured ocean-
Source: TerraCycle pushes for more beach plastic collection – Plastics News
“The collection goals we’ve set forth in total approach I would say probably 500 to 1,000 tons coming off beaches over the next 12 months. It is very much not a fad. I think that we’re investing the staff and resources and building our programs with our partners, making this a long-lasting impact,” he said.
TerraCycle will work with existing beach cleanup programs to divert collected plastics away from landfill disposal, Stevens said during the Plastics Recycling 2017 conference in New Orleans.
“What we have to do is layer our collection efforts today on top of everyone who is already doing beach cleanups. If you are any organization of any size that’s doing beach cleanup, we want the plastic from your beach cleanup. We’re already engaging them. We have a team that’s reaching out in every market,” Stevens said.
PWS supports Beachpatrol Australia. Here at beachpatrol.com.au we have over 22 groups around Port Phillip Bay in Victoria Australia collecting beach plastic monthly. We clean once a month and record the weight and # of bags of litter we get. Also how many bottles and cans we pick up. Far too much unfortunately.
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