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? The Recycling Innovators Forum Incentivizes Recycling’s Future – USA
Posted on October 28, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe Recycling Innovators Forum Incentivizes Recycling’s Future | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.
Alcoa, The American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division, Coca-Cola Recycling, eCullet, Resource Recycling, Inc. and Waste Management, Inc. today announced the 2013 Recycling Innovators Forum and Competition.
The simple and most effective recycling step to take for drink bottles is to make a deposit scheme and put a reasonable amount on the deposit. Like 10 or even better 15 cents. In place that have deposits, recycling of bottles goes to over 80% vs 10-20% for no deposit areas. So why is Coke above sponsoring this forum yet vehemently opposing any such talk of a deposit scheme? Why are they so hypocritical? What are they scared of?
Is it perhaps that a deposit scheme would make people recognise that these bottles are pollution items after all and that Coke has been making products that pollute out lands and waters for all these years and trying to hide this?
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