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? Tethered caps law enters into force in EU
Posted on July 4, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe tethered caps legislation proposed in 2018 and adopted in 2019 by the EU as part of the Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD) has come into force today, July 3
Source: Tethered caps law enters into force in EU | Sustainable Plastics
When the legislation was first floated, various multinationals, including Coca-Cola, Danone, Nestlé and PepsiCo, vigorously opposed the idea. Such a requirement, they pointed out, would involve vast amounts of time, effort and investment. New designs, new moulds, and often new machines would be needed, none of which would be achievable within the envisioned time frame.
Those brands proved themselves wrong. Coca-Cola, for example, introduced tethered caps one year and a half before the deadline, in partnership with Berry.
Once again the bottling companies exagerate any effort required to make them more environmentally responsible to not have to change their ways. This shoud have been done from day 1 and they would know this.
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