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? Goodbye Plastics & Non-biodegradable garbage – India
Posted on May 18, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsGoodbye Plastics
Source: Goodbye Plastics & Non-biodegradable garbage – The Morung Express
The social work was aimed at collecting plastics, bottles, and other non-biodegradable materials in the area of the town, the press release appended by Convenor Nuyi Hoshi, Clean-Green Phek Operation, PTYS stated.
People from all sections joined the social work, clearing the garbage lying in their surroundings, drainages, and streams. By the end of the social work, over 300 sacks of plastics and non-biodegradable trashes were collected and disposed to the dumping sites.
Great job Phek. We wonder where those dumping sites are. All the collected waste will still be there in 100’s of years to come. Not that those people now can do anything about it. Stopping its use is the best plan so it never gets there in the first place.
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