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? Government’s failure to back 25p ‘latte levy’ condemned by MPs and charities – UK
Posted on May 28, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsCharities and MPs have condemned the Government’s failure to back a proposed 25p “latte levy” on throwaway coffee cups. An influential Commons committee hit out at big-name coffee chains for failing to act on the problem in January.
Source: Government’s failure to back 25p ‘latte levy’ condemned by MPs and charities
I think [the Government] has rejected these proposals because they’re concerned about what people’s reactions are,” Ms Foster said. “And I think what we’ve seen from the 5p charge for carrier bags is that the public is supportive.”
But Chris Stemman, executive director of the British Coffee Association, said the rejection of the 25p charge was a “welcome” decision.
The world so needed the UK to introduce this Latte Levy as it would have made very strong leverage to roll it out in other countries. The greedy Coffee industry should be ashamed of their actions. Their products are littering our land and oceans in vast numbers and they do not care. #lattelevy is needed.
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