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? 
‘One less thing they can throw out their window:’ Halifax looks into banning plastic bags – Canada
Posted on February 3, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsHalifax’s environmental committee asked for a staff report looking at options to reduce or eliminate the use of plastic shopping bags in the municipality.
Coun. Tony Mancini made the motion at Thursday’s meeting of the Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee, asking for a staff report looking at “various options to reduce or eliminate the use of plastic shopping bags in the municipality,” including a complete ban, a partial ban, or a fee per bag.
Mancini told the committee he’s concerned about the number of plastic bags ending up in the municipality’s waterways and impacting wildlife, and he just wants staff to look at what can be done.
This is becoming an easier decision every day. A ban or a charge doesn’t really matter, it gets the same results. Bag use drops substantially. which is what is needed. We don’t need these disposable bags.
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