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? Coles resumes charging for plastic bags – Australia
Posted on August 31, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
COLES has resumed charging customers for its 15-cent reusable bags from today.
Source: Coles resumes charging for plastic bags
Coles then extended its bag giveaway past Woolworths before backflipping entirely on the bag ban by announcing it would give the heavier bags away for free, apparently indefinitely.
That sparked outrage from environmental groups, forcing the supermarket to backflip on its backflip, announcing an end date for the free giveaway period of August 29.
“Complimentary bags were an interim measure to help customers make the transition to reusable bags, and complimentary bags are no longer being offered,” a spokesman said.
If only they would have stuck to their original commitment this would all have been moved on and be in the past now. It is such a minor thing people will soon move on to other issues.
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