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"Our beaches are in trouble. Limited recycling programs and a society that
throws away so much have resulted in more than 3 million tonnes of plastic
polluting the oceans. An estimated 1.5–1.9% of this rubbish ends up on beaches.
So can waste-management strategies such as container deposit schemes make a
difference to this 50,000–60,000 tonnes of beach rubbish?
The Queensland government started a container deposit scheme in 2019. We wanted
to know if it reduced the rubbish that washed up on beaches in a tourist
hotspot, the Whitsundays region.
To find out, our study, the first of its kind, used data from a community
volunteer group through the Australian Marine Debris Initiative Database.
It turned out that for the types of rubbish included in the scheme – plastic
bottles and aluminium cans – the answer was an emphatic yes."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
