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? TerraCycles cigarette recycling program aims to double first-year results
Posted on July 3, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsTerraCycles cigarette recycling program aims to double first-year results.
TerraCycle and Imperial Tobacco Canada partnered in 2012 to recycle the butts, inner foil, outer wrap, unused tobacco, ashes and other elements that comprise cigarette waste – the most littered item in Canada and worldwide.
As a result, close to 50,000 people and more than 100 organizations banded together to recycle more than five million cigarette filters in the first year of the program. Today, TerraCycle released information on support from Imperial Tobacco Canada and Terracycle’s plans for 2013, which includes the goal of surpassing the milestone of 10 million filters collected and recycled.
Cigarette manufacturers are a prime industry that needs to step forwards to contribute support both educational and financial to the litter their products make.
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