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? NYC eateries protest PS ban as bad for business
Posted on June 16, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsNYC eateries protest PS ban as bad for business – News – Plastics News#email_sustain.
This is a very problematic product and one that should have been banned long ago. It is bulky to handle, is very light so it blows and flows around the environment. People will always throw it in the trash as they perceive it to have no value and will not attempt to recycle it. It can easily be replaced by cardboard as have some of the fast food chains already done so. Ban it, get rid of it, switch to more suitable materials and people will forget we ever used to have it. We have to do this for our futures sake.
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