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? Good Question: Why Do We Use So Much Plastic? – USA
Posted on October 1, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic Waste NewsGood Question: Why Do We Use So Much Plastic? « CBS Minnesota.
Most people do not know the problems with plastic and even worse they do not really want to know. It is easier to keep you head in the sand and think nothing is wrong than have to face up to what our life styles currently mean. There is a very hidden effort by industry to not let this plastic problem be known to the public. They try to steer the issues way from what do we do with all the plastic waste THEIR products make? It is going to last 100’s of years.
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