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? Britain to ban plastic wet wipes in world first after Mail campaign
Posted on July 19, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The move represents a victory for the Daily Mail which has been highlighting the dangers of plastic pollution, including wet wipes, since the award-winning ‘Banish the Bags’ campaign of 2008.
Source: Britain to ban plastic wet wipes in world first after Mail campaign
Chief executive of City to Sea, Jane Martin, said: ‘In the UK, we now use over 10.8 billion wet wipes per year – that’s an insane 38,000 wet wipes each over our lifetime.
‘Clogging waterways and leaching microplastics into the environment, wet wipes have become an unwelcome stain on the UK that cannot simply be wiped away.
‘It’s a positive step forward to see the government take definitive action on banning this pollutant, but action must not end there. The government should now look to tackle all single-use plastic products through further bans and mandated reuse and refill targets.’
SThe chief executive of River Action, James Wallace, said: ‘While this is welcome, it has been more than half a decade since the Government promised to outlaw plastic in wet wipes.
‘Make no mistake, this delay has come at a terrible cost to the environment..’
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