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? Fife Council ban on lanterns and balloons – UK
Posted on December 9, 2016 by DrRossH in BalloonsFife Council has joined 33 other UK local authorities in banning sky lanterns and helium balloons on its land or at events supported by it.
Source: Fife Council ban on lanterns and balloons
In his speech he said: “We have all been to parties or barbecues where people let off lanterns or balloons and they go floating away in the sky. They may look very pretty, but what goes up must come down and they fall down where they could be eaten by domestic animals or wild animals or float on the sea causing potential danger to sea creatures.”
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