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? Legislation to ban plastic bags at stores moves forward – Massachusetts
Posted on May 7, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsLegislation to ban plastic bags at stores moves forward – Brockton, MA – The Enterprise.
Lawmakers cited environmental concerns in supporting the ban.
“I’m generally not one that likes to intrude upon the affairs of business, but at this point I think that the scales have tipped to the point where something has to be done,” Sen. Robert Hedlund, R-Weymouth, said.
Rep. Lori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead, who sponsored one of the bills given a favorable recommendation, said 10 percent of the debris that washes up on the shore is plastic bags.
“Nothing that we use for a few minutes should pollute the oceans for hundreds of years,” Ehrlich said.
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