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? NSWMA Launches Plastic Separation Project – Jamaica
Posted on May 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsNSWMA Launches Plastic Separation Project.
“He bemoaned that the continued spending to clear garbage, including plastics, from gullies, drains, waterways and streets, has been significantly impacting the budgets of central and local governments. “This action results in extremely high cost to the government especially during periods of heavy rain and the hurricane season,” he stated.
He said that all parish councils have been mandated to commence a cleanup project, which will run in tandem with the plastic recycling initiative.
Mr. Arscott informed that the government will be exploring biodegradable packaging materials for the future, noting that plastic bottles take some 450 million years to degrade.”
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