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? Address the plastic bags scourge – Pakistan
Posted on June 16, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAddress the plastic bags scourge – The Express Tribune.
While it is good Cities in Pakistan recognise that these disposable plastic bags are a real problem and that drastic action has to now be taken to curb them, that simply switching to oxodegradable plastic bags is not the answer, They could be making it worse for the environment and wildlife in the environment. What could be worse than lots of little fragments of plastic blowing and flowing around lose in the environment?
The first commenter is not correct. There is no proof that this author has seen to show that oxodegradable bags do anything other than fragment into little fragments of plastic. That website he refers to is a very bad case of intentional misleading of the consumer.
It states the bags are biodegradable in a landfill when they are not. There is very little oxygen and no sunlight in a landfill,. They all know this but still try to fool the consumer to making a bigger pollution problem.
It states the bags are recyclable. They are not mainstream recyclable. The only effective way to get rid of an oxodegradable bag is to incinerate it and it if it is to be incinerated then why put the additive in it in the first place. That websites group ought to be ashamed.
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