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? Albay anti-plastic ordinance takes effect this June – Philippines
Posted on June 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPIA | Philippine Information Agency | Albay anti-plastic ordinance takes effect this June.
The ordinance directs owners of groceries, department stores, supermarkets, chain retailers, including sari-sari stores not to use plastic, Styrofoam, and synthetic materials as packaging bags for goods sold to customers.
Plastic bags end up as litters. These find their ways into waterways, river channels, parks, beaches, and streets. Once burned, they infuse the air with toxic fumes.
One of the worst environmental effects of plastic bags is that they are non-biodegradable, decomposition of plastic bags takes about 400 years.
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