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? Judge overturns NYC’s EPS ban – USA
Posted on September 28, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsNew York City’s ban on expanded polystyrene has been overturned by the state’s Supreme Court, reopening the city’s door for foam cups, clamshells, coolers and packing peanuts — and for recycling EPS products.
This is so sad to see. This is one product that we need to do without. It is an environmental disaster. The manufacturers of it ought to be ashamed. Their greed to put their profits over the destruction of the wider environment is appalling.
Why a ban can be overruled because one group says it can be recycled is simply a complete lack of understanding of the issue at hand. A judge is not qualified to make this decision. It involves chemistry, knowledge of recycling efficiency and costs, knowing details of its effect in the environment. To reduce it to a simple technicality of can one person say it is ‘recyclable’ is naieve and they should admit so.
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