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? Victoria will get cash-for-cans, container deposit scheme – Australia
Posted on February 2, 2020 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: Victoria will get cash-for-cans, container deposit scheme
After many long years of doing nothing, the State government has finally announced a container deposit scheme to give consumers 10 cents back on their drink bottle or can. Every other state has or is implementing one, so Vic is the last. Also thankful we are getting one, they are also taking longer than any other state to bring it in. 3 years! Why so long? The other states know how to do it, so it ought to be relatively quick for Vic. Why so long? That is allowing many millions of those resources to escape into the environment rather than be recycled or reused. Vic. has no real way to deal with large scale waste at the moment as the governments have been hiding their head in the sand when it comes to waste management. Now that it has all fallen apart with the China Sword and other countries following on. So perhaps that is why they put 3 years on it, to give them a chance to try to do some waste management and make a place where all these returned containers can go.
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