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? What has Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda and Somalia done that Australia hasn’t?
Posted on April 8, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations‘Spoilt Australia’ lagging behind third world countries as eight African countries get one up on us.
via What has Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda and Somalia done that Australia hasn’t?.
“We should be embarrassed. It’s a disgrace,” said Clean Up Australia managing director Terrie-Ann Johnson.
That third-world countries moved to ban plastic bags before Australia is a reflection on our society, she said.
“We are so spoilt here in Australia, because we live in this land of high convenience. We baby boomers have really created this spoilt society, where everything is single use.”
“We expect someone to look after our disposal because we are a wealthy nation. They are not wealthy nations, they can’t afford waste management. Yet they engaged the community in the process, where nobody lost anything but everybody gained something.”
She said the battle for a ban was one that had required patience.
“Let’s just say I’ve been working on this since 2003. I’m well and truly over it. We just feel this is such low hanging fruit for the government, we don’t see why we can’t just enact an eastern seaboard solution now.”
Yes once again Australia shows how far behind it is all the while claiming they use Worlds Best Practices.
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