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 treaty talks opening day in Kenya: An uneasy truce
Posted on November 17, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics treaty talks reopened Nov. 13 under what one experienced observer called an “uneasy truce,” as countries returned to negotiations.
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We saw in Paris that despite early momentum in this process, there were extraordinary efforts to derail it and slow it down,” he said. “We see those efforts reemerging here early and actively.”
Iran, one of the countries that led the parliamentary revolt in Paris, announced a new coalition with several other oil-producing nations, a development that prompted some to wonder whether it foreshadowed a repeat of Paris.
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