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? Packaged food habit a load of rubbish
Posted on May 30, 2016 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalCORN on trays, apples sliced in containers, lettuce wrapped in plastic and sweet potatoes peeled and displayed on polystyrene trays.
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“Consumers need to start to strongly express their objections to the supermarket chains,” Mr Angel said. “I know of no survey that states consumers want their fresh produce wrapped in plastic.”
There is a growing backlash. A single sweet potato on a polystyrene tray wrapped in plastic so enraged 74-year-old Pat Lowe of Broome last year that she set up a petition calling on supermarkets to stop wrapping fresh food in plastic. It attracted 109,000 signatures.
“All that wrapping for one blooming vegetable, it’s ridiculous. I grew up in an era where there was no plastic and you took your own string bag to the shops,” she said.
Grocery stores if they had a conscience, would be ashamed of the practices to wrap all this unnecessary fruit and vegetables in plastic film and packaging. But they pass the buck by saying consumers should have choices. The consumes that buy these items are just as bad.
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