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? Change won’t come through moralising, only through movement – Denmark
Posted on November 26, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsIf only more people in power thought like this politician in Denmark.
Is it so that those of us with green hearts and minds are opposed to progress and that we would rather extinguish life than letting it flourish? No, not at all. On the contrary, it is exactly because we love and enjoy life that we want to sustain it. It is because we want to make sure that those who come after us will also be able to enjoy the same wonders of life that we have. To eat amazing food, to visit beautiful places and to experience the wonders of nature. That is why we are ready to change the way we live and that is why we strive to change the world around us.
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