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? Making UAE free of plastic bags ‘a priority’: Minister
Posted on March 31, 2016 by DrRossH in GeneralResidents use a whopping 11b plastic bags annually says FNC member
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“Ministry statistics showed residents use a whopping 11 billion plastic bags annually but the ministry failed to meet deadlines ever since the ‘Make UAE Plastic Bags Free’ drive was launched in 2009,” Al Rahoumi said.
The initiative particularly aimed to limit the negative impacts of non-biodegradable plastic bags on human health, other creatures and the environment through cutting down the quantity of these bags used in the UAE as a gradual step towards the final prohibition and replacement with biodegradable plastic bags and alternative bags.
Al Rahoumi said that 80 to 90 per cent of the ministry’s target was not achieved.
This failure to move away from plastic bags is typical when rules are passed but not enforced. Being a dry environment, these people should be very proactive about stopping bags as they will last many many 100’s of years in that environment.
They have been duped by some over zealous sales people when it comes to their understanding of biodegradable bags. They have been lead to thing that oxodegradable is biodegradable. They should be asked where is the proof of biodegradation, i.e where is evidence of Co2 emissions from the microorganism activity.
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