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? Clean Up Malta pushes for ban on balloon releases
Posted on May 31, 2018 by DrRossH in BalloonsThe Malta Clean Up group, who spend time voluntarily cleaning up Malta and Gozo have appealed to the Prime Minister, the Environment Minister and all local councils to help ban all balloon releases during Maltese feasts, due to the damage caused to the environment.
In her letter, Malta Clean Up founder and The Malta Independent columnist Camilla Appelgren, argued that balloons are nothing but litter, and said there is no chance of the person releasing the balloon cleaning it up.
She quoted Maltese Law, which states that: “No person shall throw down, drop or otherwise deposit in, into or from any place in the open air to which the public are entitled or permitted to have access without payment, and leave anything whatsoever in such circumstances as to cause, contribute to, or tend to lead to, the defacement by litter of any place in the open air, unless such depositing and leaving was lawfully authorized.”
She said that her group understands that some litter is allowed during feasts, such as confetti which is then cleaned up by the organisers, “however, balloons let loose into the air can’t be cleaned up.
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