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? Plastic bag ban passes in Cohasset – USA
Posted on May 2, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsCohasset now joins nearly 70 Massachusetts municipalities that have banned the distribution of single-use plastic bags. The citizen’s petition
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Cohasset now joins nearly 70 Massachusetts municipalities that have banned the distribution of single-use plastic bags.
The citizen’s petition proposed by Katie Dunn of 751 Jerusalem Road and Martha Gangemi of 24 Rust Way received overwhelming support both ahead of the town’s Annual Town Meeting and on Town Meeting floor Monday evening (April 30). The goal, the two said, was to help contribute to an ongoing international effort to ban plastic bags.
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