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? Bengaluru grapples with plastics in disguise | Bengaluru NYOOOZ
Posted on May 2, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations“Non-woven bags are passed off as cloth bags due to their texture.Despite the ban, plastic is finding its way again into the system through these articles.Most mandals did away with plastic cups but opted for paper cups, defeating the purpose, officials said.The authorities attribute the widespread use of paper cups and cloth bags to lack of awareness.This is, in fact, the reason for the difficulty in tearing up these ‘paper’ cups.
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But most of these contain non-biodegradable plastic and fall under the purview of the ban implemented last month. The authorities attribute the widespread use of paper cups and cloth bags to lack of awareness. Despite the ban, plastic is finding its way again into the system through these articles. “Non-woven bags are passed off as cloth bags due to their texture.
But they are essentially polypropylene bags, which have a high plastic content,”
The use of ‘paper’ cups and reusable bags has to be clearly defined as many are lined with a plastic lining as this article points out.
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