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? FTC says firm’s biodegradable claims ‘false’ – USA
Posted on October 30, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Let the science to the talking and not the lawyers. There is ample evidence that there are additives that will make plastics landfill-biodegradable. Speed is not the question. Even if it takes 20 years, that is far far better than an untreated plastic. We should not be leaving our plastic waste for future generations to deal with.
Maybe we should be looking at the plastics industry. Why are they allowed to make a product that has no effective or even designed end of life strategy. They are the irresponsible parties here and need to be made accountable.
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