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? Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Unabated use of plastic bags in Islamabad – Pakistan
Posted on May 20, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsDaily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Unabated use of plastic bags in Islamabad.
Despite a ban on production, selling and usage of plastic bags due to the harmful effect on environment, they are being used in the federal capital.
The shopkeepers are seen handing over their goods to the customers in these bags as they were doing before the ban, which shows that the supply of these bags to the shopkeepers continues.
This seems to be a common theme in lesser developed countries. A limiting law or a ban is passed, but with out the ability (or will) to enforce it, not much really changes.
While it is good that they recognise the plastic bag problem and taking active steps to reduce it, their selection of oxo-degradable bags is very questionable. Oxo bags will fragment (via an internal chemical cleaving reaction brought about by the addition of the additive) into little bits of plastic that is actually worse for the environment. Plus once they are buried in a landfill, the lack of oxygen there stops the reaction fom occuring (as stated on the oxo manufacturers websites) and the bags sit around for a long long time like a conventional bag. So nothing really achieved.
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