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? No let-up in implementation of anti-plastic bags ordinance – Philippines
Posted on September 19, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThis was after a department store in the city was reported to have remained defiant to calls to stop using plastic bags and insists that what it is using as packaging are biodegradable, Marigza said.
She said the business establishment even presented a certification to City Hall, stating its plastic bags have two-percent additive that make them biodegradable, although environmentalists are not sold out on this.
The article showed them using an additive. But the article did not show if it was a degradable or biodegradable additive as they are very different. One fragments plastic down to little pieces of plastic the other allows the plastic to biodegrade away if discarded to a microbe rich environment.
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