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? Nick Clegg’s plastic bag levy is an abuse of the tax system – UK
Posted on October 2, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsNick Clegg’s plastic bag levy is an abuse of the tax system – Telegraph.
It is hardly surprising that a conservative MP is taking this stance against a plastic bag surcharge.
Any one who writes this below has not been out in society lately.
They (grocery stores) are good at providing what consumers want rather than what politicians think is good for them – the bars of chocolate near the till are a joy for children and probably some parents too. The endless supply of free plastic bags is a small part of this convenience: customers do not need to remember their shopping bags and have an easy way of transporting goods both from the shop to their car and then into their homes.
The conservatives make it well known they are all for supporting the ‘right now’ and could care less about tomorrow. Voters vote now so that is where they see their best interests lay to get into power. However for the rest of us that have to put up with the problems made by this very short sighted way of thinking the conservatives have, it is making our lives more and more unpleasant every day with more and more pollution and a lower quality of life.
Bring on the bag charge and see our lives get better.
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