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? Boulder to consider fee on paper, plastic grocery bags rather than ban – The Denver Post
Posted on May 14, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsBoulder to consider fee on paper, plastic grocery bags rather than ban – The Denver Post.
Once again the plastic bag lobby drags out the excuse of “more education is needed to train people to recycle bags before imposing fees or banning bags”. They do this every time and often say we can’t do it because jobs will be lost at the plastic bag making plant. They say this as they well know that if this was the policy enacted, that very little would change and they would still be selling as many plastic bags in 10 years time.
Charging a fee for either paper or plastic bags is a good option as it banning plastic bags. Charging a fee allows all retailers to be involved in the process of reducing our plastic bag usage and not separate out one business type over another.
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