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? Bag ban stalls, bottle bill may be headed to Massachusetts voters
Posted on July 20, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsBag ban stalls, bottle bill may be headed to Massachusetts voters – News – Plastics News.
Efforts to curb plastic use and waste in Massachusetts are foundering.
A proposed state-wide bag ban that drew much attention when it was proposed last spring has since stalled out, and a decades-long effort to include nearly all plastic bottles in the state’s deposit program will be decided by voters this fall after it flopped in the legislature.
This is pathetic of the legislators. Just sign the bill and move on. It is not that big of a deal to sign. The environmental benefits are enormous.
For a state that prides it self on its water ways, this is a very irresponsible in action by the people that can make a big difference.
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