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? Niagara: Falls waters down Plastic bottle ban
Posted on February 24, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsOnly one biodegradable option here. Landfill-Biodegradable bottles. Compostable (PLA) will not work as no collection or facilities to use. Oxodegradable make a worse enviro problem with their fragments. Plus they will NOT biodegrade in spite of what they say. Landfill-Biodegradable will biodegrade in a landfill in a few years. Or consider banning bottles smaller than 1.5 liter that would cut down usage by a large percentage. Better to keep the ban on, and make people use reusable bottles. That will result in the least amout of plastic used.
NiagaraThisWeek Article: Falls waters down bottle ban.
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