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? 
National Geographic’s June magazine cover has people talking
Posted on May 22, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
National Geographic’s chillingly shrewd June magazine cover has people talking.
Source: National Geographic’s June magazine cover has people talking
National Geographic’s chillingly shrewd June magazine cover has people talking.
The classic orange-yellow frame surrounds a picture of a plastic bag submerged underwater with one of its tips pointing out of glacial-blue waters and made to look like an iceberg.
“Planet or plastic?” the words on the cover read.
“The 18 billion pieces of plastic that end up in the ocean each year are just the tip of the iceberg,” a caption in smaller print reads.
National Geographic’s senior photo editor, Vaughn Wallace, posted the image by Mexican artist Jorge Gamboa on Twitter Wednesday, and it’s now spreading across the Internet faster than the glaciers are melting.
Great story that hopefully reaches millions of people.
Discussion · No Comments
There are no responses to "National Geographic’s June magazine cover has people talking". Comments are closed for this post.Oops! Sorry, comments are closed at this time. Please try again later.