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? Kudos to city for bag ban Part II- San Diego
Posted on May 18, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsCommunity dialog: North County | UTSanDiego.com.
It is interesting to read the two comments in this article. One from Barbara who has a long term outlook for the betterment of the planet and our way of life and the other from Jay who is only looking at his own issues right now. Not sure why he would make much of a distinction between petroleum bags and natural gas bags. Gas is a little cleaner yes but they are both hydrocarbons and have carbon emissions and both foster this dependency of hydrocarbons that we need to get off.
Jay ought to know that only about 2% of bags are recycled, most go to landfills or litter even after the last 10 years of trying to change it. So putting a few more recycling bins in a shop won’t change this. You are just as likely to forget your bags to recycle as you are to bring your reusable bags. It doesn’t work, so a bag ban is the best option to go to change this undesirable position we have gotten into now. Businesses will experience a change as people get used to the new way, then it will all be forgotten and it will be business as usual. Remember businesses are in the business of selling goods not in the business of handing out free bags.
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