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? World Plastics Council supports G7 leaders marine plan | Plastics News#utm_medium=email&utm_source=pn-sustain&utm_campaign=pn-sustain-20150618&email_sustain#utm_medium=email&utm_source=pn-sustain&utm_campaign=pn-sustain-20150618&email_sustain
Posted on June 18, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe World Plastics Council has welcomed news that leaders of the G7 group of countries laid out a “bold action plan” to cut marine litter while at the recent summit in Germany.
“One of these solutions is the Operation Clean Sweep program which is currently being rolled out, globally and along the value chain.
“The plastics industry is successfully contributing to reducing the loss of plastic pellets. We are pleased that the G-7 leaders have recognized this as an important measure.”
Last time I read the ACC was fighting anything to reduce the use of plastic. So lets hope this council can really do something as it has not been too effective so far. Our marine plastic levels are far too high and not receiving enough publicity.
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