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? Plastics industry stakeholders eye gradual shift to oxo-biodegradable alternative -Philippines
Posted on February 16, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe association of stakeholders in the plastics industry has proposed a gradual shift to an eco-friendly alternative to disposable plastic bags instead of phasing them out in one go.
Willy Go described oxo-biodegradable plastic bags as a cheap but more environmentally-friendly alternative to existing single-use plastic bags as it is only two to three percent more expensive than non-biodegradable plastics.
This is exactly what they should not do. They need to look at what oxodegradable means. It is a fragmenting of the plastic. It does not go away just breaks down into smaller bits of plastic that are far worse for the environment and far worse for marine life. Get some BIODEGRADABLE not oxodegradable. Biodegradable means digested by microorganisms and it is gone. A plastic bag ban is by far the best however. Force people to switch over to some sort of locally mad reusable bags. Once the switch over has been made and adjusted to, we’ll wonder what all the fuss was about.
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