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 Labeling Requirements – USA
Posted on June 7, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsIn-stand beer sales, primitive structure bills clear Senate :: WRAL.com.
Raleigh, N.C. — The state Senate dispensed with more than 20 bills Wednesday, hearing little if any debate on each. Among the measures that cleared the chamber were:
HB 315: Plastics Labeling Requirements: Certain plastic bottles are biodegradable. Those biodegradable bottles contain material that can disrupt the recycling process used to remake other non-biodegradable plastic bottles. Under H 315, biodegradable plastic bottles would have to be labeled as not recyclable. The bill now goes to the governor.
A sad example of our legislators at work. Firstly it said the bill went through with little discussion from the floor. These so called ‘leaders’ are not qualifies to make these decisions as evidenced by the little debate on this. There are several ways to make a bottle biodegradable, only a few a non recyclable (oxo-degradable, compostable) , others such as landfill-biodegradable are fully recyclable and it should be encouraged. These legislators are just making the control of plastic waste more of a problem with blind laws like this.
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