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? A Range of Opinions on Proposed Ban for Single-Use Plastic Bags
Posted on May 2, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsGovernor Cuomo has announced legislation to enact a ban on single-use plastic bags at all retail and grocery stores in New York State. While most agree
Source: A Range of Opinions on Proposed Ban for Single-Use Plastic Bags
Director of the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency Andrew Radin supports the ban, noting the positive effect it will have on the environment and post-consumer waste management.
“It also creates a problem from waste water treatment facilities to deal with it as a maintenance problem, and it’s also a maintenance problem in recycling facilities across the state as it really jams up equipment, so there’s a variety of both environmental and economic advantages to removing the plastic bags from the system.
Their attempt at a bag surcharge was overrun by the State government being lobbied by the bag manufacturers, so lets hope they can get a ban though.
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