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? Anti-plastic bags ordinance to take effect Aug 28th – Philippines
Posted on August 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe ordinance bans vendors from offering or selling plastic bags to be used as secondary packaging material for wet goods or primary packaging for dry goods, a government press release had earlier said.
Polystyrene or styrofoam, and other similar materials, are also prohibited as packaging containers, either as primary or secondary. Persons of any store or business establishment found violating the law will be penalized P500 for the first violation, P1,000 for the second violation and P5,000 for the third violation, the press release added.
Antonio said it is time to minimize the use of plastic bags to help save the environment. Plastic bags and other non-biodegradable materials have been blamed for clogging drainage canals in the city and worsening the floods that hit Dumaguete in 2009 and 2011.
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