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 Rubbish Revolution – Australia
Posted on April 15, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife, Plastic Waste NewsSource: The Rubbish Revolution
It’s the rubbish triathalon and it’s sweeping across Melbourne, leaving nothing in its wake, except pristine streets, parks, waterways and beaches. The participants are out there on foot, in kayaks and in weighted wetsuits, picking up what others have dropped, thrown, or perhaps hidden.
Love our Street 3162 (Caulfield South) convener Sophie Vid started organising monthly street cleans after realising her neighbourhood had a rubbish problem. “I was on maternity leave and spending a lot of time on foot and walking around with my young son in the pram. Having that perspective of being on foot, it was unavoidable: all the rubbish everywhere. Footpaths … gutters … in parks … shopping strips. It got to a point where I was really compelled to do something,” she says.
She started picking it up. “I did it with my eldest son as a fun activity to kill some time, in between feeding and sleeping. Then I came across this group that had set up in Elwood, which was a street-cleaning group,” she says. In December 2017, Vid started her own. The first event attracted 18 people, now the monthly cleans draw around 40.
Love Our street is part of BeachPatrol. A volunteer group covering over 40 post codes picking up litter from beaches and Neighborhoods.
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