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? Ethical bottled water companies find it hard to compete with Nestlé and Coke
Posted on September 5, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsIt is not mentioned once in this article about the impact of where all those plastic bottles go is a big problem. Countries that typically need clean water have no infra structure to handle plastic waste. The people are given little education about how to dispose of plastic waste and it then becomes a pollution problem for them. It is not ok to claim ‘humanity relief kudos’ while at the same time polluting their lands. The plastic water bottle companies need to take on the responsibility of this too. Just to say they are providing clean water to poor people is not enough.
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