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? Catalyst: Plastic Oceans – ABC TV Science – Australia
Posted on September 20, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsCatalyst: Plastic Oceans – ABC TV Science.
This is a very good short video of the problems of plastic. If only more people could watch this video we would all be better off.
Even in this video they are begging for the introduction of a drink bottle container law to stop plastic bottles and their tops from getting into the oceans and causing a horrible death for the wildlife and for the health of the species that eat seafood. Us!
The contaminant concentrating effect of plastic debris in the oceans is ending up on our tables and most people have no idea.
We all have to stop using disposable plastic items as the first point of action. That alone would do a lot to reduce the further damage to our world and its inhabitants.
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