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? European Parliament votes in favour of cutting plastic bag use
Posted on July 14, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPack Web Asia – European Parliament votes in favour of cutting plastic bag use.
Under the Directive, plastic carrier bags usage in Europe will have to be reduced by 50% by 2017, and 80% by 2019, compared to 2010 figures. This can be achieved through the use of measures such as taxes, levies, marketing restrictions or bans, to ensure that shops do not provide for plastic bags free of charge, except for very light ones, used to wrap loose foods such as raw meat, fish and dairy products.
The EP also proposed to phase-out bags that fragment and do not biodegrade and ban harmful substances in plastic bags – meaning the use of oxo-degradable plastics would no longer be considered a viable option.
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