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? Oxo-biodegradable lobby slams ‘scaremongering’ – UK
Posted on January 28, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsOxo-biodegradable lobby slams ‘scaremongering’ – News – Plastics News.
Last week the British Plastics Federation and others called on ministers to shelve any ideas about exempting plastic carrier bags made using biodegradable material from the charge, which is due to be introduced in England in October.
The government is right to not exempt any type of bag. They should all be charged for to discourage any plastic bag use. The oxobags are not biodegradable they just fall into little pieces. When buried they is little oxygen so they will not even fragment. Compostable will not break down either nor are they recyclable. It is all too confusing for anyone who is not involved in the plastics waste industry. Therefore no bag should be exempt and they all should be charged for. Keep it simple and it will work well.
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