jakob de zwart

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jakob
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[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][az_column_text]I bring your attention to the plastic elephant in the room.

Let’s take a minute to think about online food ordering services like:-

  • Uber Eats
  • Menulog
  • Foodora
  • Deliveroo

Let’s calculate container consumption for the year.

Let’s look at my mate Johnny, he’s a single male, works hard, hits the gym regularly and has a pretty active social life. He finds himself ordering 2-3 evening meals a week. Often that might be a single tasty dish, some rice. sometimes an entree.

So that’s already 9 containers per week or  468 containers per year.

[/az_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][az_column_text]Johnny after 1 year alone has stacked all his containers next to each other, which is the same length of an Olympic swimming pool!

[/az_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][az_single_image image=”8411″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][az_column_text]Now imagine a  family.

Multiple this by 4 now we’re at 1872 containers per year.

If I did the same you would do one entire lap around an Olympic run track.[/az_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][az_single_image image=”8412″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][az_column_text]Now quickly apply this to 1 single suburb in Sydney like Randwick. If everyone did this we would do 1 lap around the Earth!

[/az_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][az_single_image image=”8410″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][az_column_text]If the entire population of Australia did this, we could do 192 laps of earth or travel to the Moon and back 20 times.

That’s a 95km/h drive for 20 years non-stop![/az_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][az_single_image image=”8409″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][az_column_text]If the entire planet did this we’re talking 20 trips to the SUN.

PER year

Based on ONE meal in the day

REALLY SCARY!

[/az_column_text][az_column_text]Astronomer Fred Hoyle was the first to point out that if you could drive a car upwards at 95km/h (60mph), it would only take about an hour to get into space. To get to the Moon would take a little longer though, since it’s 400,000km (250,000 miles) away – around 10 times the circumference of the Earth. So it would take as long as driving around the world 10 times – just under six months.[/az_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]