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? Atlantic City votes to join three other beach towns in helium balloon ban -USA
Posted on January 27, 2017 by DrRossH in BalloonsAtlantic-City-joins-three-other-beach-towns-in-helium-balloon-ban.
Atlantic City has moved to join its neighboring beach towns of Ventnor, Margate, and Longport in banning the outdoor release of helium balloons, and attaching a $500 fine to the ban.
The action, after final passage, will mean that helium balloon releases are banned along the entire barrier island that is home to the beach towns.
The ban is the work of the Surfrider Foundation, an environmental group well -acquainted with balloons that start their life at a birthday party but end up blowing in the wind on the beach, or in the ocean.
We need more and more of these balloon release bans. So many are washing up on beaches these days.
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