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? Turning the Yarra’s trash into river bank furniture – Australia
Posted on August 30, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsTonnes of plastic that has been fished out of Melbourne’s iconic river will be melted down to create seats along the water’s edge.
Source: Turning the Yarra’s trash into river bank furniture
Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly said it was impossible to know how much rubbish was in the Yarra but believed the problem was getting worse. He said litter was “a government problem” that was too big for community groups to fix.
Melbourne Water said more than 90 per cent of litter found on the beaches of Port Phillip originated on suburban streets and had been carried through storm water.
“Melbourne Water has a team of people monitoring and removing litter from our waterways — up to 47,000 wheelie bins of rubbish are collected every year,” waterways manager Andrew Mellor said
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