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? CB council will consider ban ordinance for plastic bags – USA
Posted on June 24, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA small fee on paper bags likely By Mark Reaman The Crested Butte town staff will draft an ordinanc
Source: CB council will consider ban ordinance for plastic bags – The Crested Butte News
The Crested Butte town staff will draft an ordinance for the council that would ban single-use checkout/carryout plastic bags from town and impose a fee on approved paper bags. The council will consider the proposal—based primarily on a similar ordinance from Telluride—this summer and maybe as early as next month.
The issue has come before the council through the efforts of Sustainable Crested Butte, a group spearheaded by recent CBCS graduate Benjamin Swift. Swift made it clear that the ban would not impact a wide variety of plastic bags used in town—for example, bags used for fresh produce, retail or medical marijuana, garbage bags, bags used to contain unwrapped prepared foods or bakery goods and more.
An advanced recovery fee would be imposed on each paper bag handed out in town but only paper bags that meet certain standards would be allowed. The paper bags would have to be manufactured by 100 percent recycled content, contain no old growth fiber and be 100 percent recyclable. Swift suggested that fee be 30 cents per bag. Half of that would be retained by the business, with the other half going to the town to be used for education or reusable bags. Swift explained that the 30-cent fee would be collected by businesses.
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