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? Microbead ban headed for Obama’s signature -USA
Posted on December 21, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA bill to completely ban the manufacture or sale of personal care products containing plastic microbeads by 2019 is headed to the president’s desk after approval from the U.S. House.
The bill would apply to any non-prescription, rinse-off cosmetic product, from toothpaste to exfoliators, banning manufacture of products containing the polypropylene pieces starting July 1, 2017, and the sale of products containing microbeads, imported or domestic, as of July 1, 2019. It also would define “microbead” as “any solid plastic particle that is less than 5 millimeters in size.”
Finally! This should pass the senate easily as these microbeads are so dangerous.
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