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? More Plastic than Fish in the Ocean by 2050: Report Offers Blueprint for Change
Posted on January 24, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeFon Mathuros, Head of Media, Public Engagement, Tel.: +41 (0)79 201 0211; Email: fmathuro@weforum.org
via More Plastic than Fish in the Ocean by 2050: Report Offers Blueprint for Change.
Most plastic packaging is used only once; new report reveals that 95% of the value of plastic packaging material, worth $80 billion-$120 billion annually, is lost to the economy
· Report predicts that, on the current track, oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050 (by weight)
· Report offers vision for a global economy in which plastics never become waste, and a blueprint for the systemic change and collaboration needed to realize that vision
· Read the full report here
If more plastic waste in the oceans than fish is not raising alarms then we are not sure what would.
Discussion · No Comments
There are no responses to "More Plastic than Fish in the Ocean by 2050: Report Offers Blueprint for Change". Comments are closed for this post.Oops! Sorry, comments are closed at this time. Please try again later.