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? Discount department store Target brings back free plastic bags after hundreds of customer complaints – Australia
Posted on October 2, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsWhat a sad day for Australian environment and an even sadder day to read that some people are so careless about the environment and too lazy to think about bringing their own reusable bag to the store. An action that might take 30 secs of their time? Somehow these same people still have the time to write to Target and complain their lives have been inconvenienced.
We will probably never know but how much will this increase their $136 million in profits by not making pay people for plastic bags now. Making people pay a lowly 10 cents for a plastic bag is probably not the problem their profits are down. Why should the environment suffer for their business problems?
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