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? Companies, municipalities crack down on plastics – USA
Posted on June 18, 2018 by DrRossH in Balloons, Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic StrawsAll kinds of plastics have become the target of official, municipal sanction as concern keeps piling up about the kind of trash that doesn’t naturally degrade for decades — and ends up in the ocean or the digestive tracts of marine life and birds.
Source: Companies, municipalities crack down on plastics
SeaWorld and Royal Caribbean announced this week they will no longer use plastic straws and plastic bags at their facilities, citing their effect on the environment. They will be replaced with paper straws and biodegradable bags.
“All you have to do is watch as wildlife and sea life encounter the menacing detritus of how we live to understand that action needs to be taken,” she said, recalling a picture she saw of a seahorse holding a Q-Tip.
She said state laws prohibit municipalities from banning plastic bags and plastic foam food containers.
The USA is so controlled by lobbiests that the roll of democratic government is no longer what is was designed for.
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