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Fremantle to ban plastic bags – Perth, Western Australia
Posted on March 8, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsLike other cities, these people are realising the damage all these plastic bags are causing. Australia uses approximately 6 billion bags a year. That is a lot of bags loose in the environment, clogging drains, littering the streets and...
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Monster Bag campaign in Dubai gets drastic about plastic
Posted on March 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulationsgulfnews : Monster Bag campaign in Dubai gets drastic about plastic. Yet another locailty realises the damage that plastic bags cause and are getting rid of them by replacing them with reusable bags.
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Plastic a threat to the environment – Fiji
Posted on March 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations"Being a non-biodegradable substance, composed of toxic chemicals, plastic pollutes the earth, air and water. A single plastic bag can take up to 1000 years to decay completely. This makes the bags stay in environment longer," Plastic a threat...
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AFP bans non-biodegradable food containers inside Camp Aguinaldo
Posted on March 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations“The convenience we get in using Styrofoam and other non-biodegradable materials is nothing compared to the devastation we get from natural calamities. It is now time that we adjust our habits and start embracing the use of environment friendly materials,...
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Baillieu retreats on bottle refund scheme
Posted on March 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAustralian politicians bowing down to corporate desires again. Approx 90% of the electorate want this scheme and a few bottling companies do not, so why is the government of Victoria not listening to the 90% of people who they...
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Coalition fights San Francisco bag ban
Posted on March 2, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWhile the Philippines are passing laws to protect their economy from the flooding caused by plastic bag blocked drains, and the large pollution aspect, the USA is mired down with law suits to try to do the same. Plastics News...
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To plastic or not to plastic, that is the question…
Posted on March 2, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA good article describing the shocking woes in the Philippines due to the problem of plastic bags blocking drains causing flooding, high levels of visible pollution, and squalid conditions. To plastic or...
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Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association calls for mandatory use of biodegradable additives
Posted on February 24, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe people of Ghana need to understand degradable (oxo-degradable) additives are not biodegradable otherwise their country could end up in a worse state. Unfortunately the level of understanding of this technology is beyond most peoples education and aggressive salesmen can convince...
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Philippine Information Agency | Gen.Trias joins ‘no plastic policy’ bandwagon
Posted on February 24, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe Philippines is to be congratulated on this stance. They have a particularly bad plastic waste problems and positive actions like this will go a long way to getting their beautiful environment back. PIA | Philippine Information Agency | Gen.Trias...
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Niagara: Falls waters down Plastic bottle ban
Posted on February 24, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsOnly one biodegradable option here. Landfill-Biodegradable bottles. Compostable (PLA) will not work as no collection or facilities to use. Oxodegradable make a worse enviro problem with their fragments. Plus they will NOT biodegrade in spite of what they...
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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?