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? Call for councils to ban sky lanterns and balloons in Lincolnshire – UK
Posted on March 27, 2017 by DrRossH in BalloonsThe ‘Don’t Let Go’ campaign is calling for Lincolnshire councils to join a voluntary ban on the release of balloons and sky lanterns. The campaign is an effort to save wildlife by the Marine…
Source: Call for councils to ban sky lanterns and balloons in Lincs
The campaign is an effort to save wildlife by the Marine Conversation Society, who says the average amount of balloon material found on UK beaches has nearly tripled since 2007.
The charity’s Great British Beach Clean 2016 report also reveals that balloon related litter has risen by over 50 per cent since 2015.
Here in Australia they are a problem too. In a recent survey we just finished where we surveyed the same section of beach every day for a year, amongst many other things we collected 750 balloons or fragments. Off just 35 m! Full details are available.
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