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? Biden wants federal agencies to cut back on single-use plastics – USA
Posted on January 6, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The Biden administration is floating a plan to have federal agencies voluntarily cut back on purchasing of single-use plastics, rejecting arguments that it set more forceful targets.
Source: Biden wants federal agencies to cut back on single-use plastics | Plastics News
President Joe Biden’s administration is proposing a voluntary program that would encourage government agencies to reduce the amount of single-use plastics they buy, saying it wants to use the power of federal spending to push what it sees as greener packaging.
The Dec. 26 proposal from the General Services Administration, which oversees federal procurement, comes after conservation groups and some states had urged the Biden administration to take stronger steps and mandate single-use plastic reduction targets and reusable packaging goals for government agencies.
The GSA proposal is the latest step in a debate that started in 2022 when a coalition of 180 environmental groups petitioned the agency to use the federal government’s influence as the world’s largest buyer of goods and services — at nearly $700 billion a year — to push alternatives to single-use plastics.
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