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? Environment department lauded Davao City’s ban on plastic bags -Philippines
Posted on May 13, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsEnvironment department lauded Davao City’s ban on plastic bags | Sun.Star.
“The ban of these non-biodegradable containers will significantly reduce the City’s burden on managing wastes that are very damaging to the environment said DENR 11 Regional Executive Director Jim Sampulna.
“Once plastic bags or polystyrene foams are used, most of them go to the landfill or end up littering the environment. And once they become litter, they find their ways into the waterways, streets, beaches and seas. Plastics and polystyrene foams clog waterways and pollute our oceans and seas too. The sad reality is since they are non-biodegradables, their decomposition takes very long years,” Sampulna added.
Sampulna recalled that during their agency’s coastal clean-up in 2011, most of the garbage composed of plastic wrappers/containers, which form part of the 17,087 kilos of garbage collected.
On the other hand, plastic wrappers/containers also made up most of the 252 sacks of garbage collected during their drainage clean-up activities.”
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