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? PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haiti bans plastic bags, foam containers
Posted on September 27, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haiti bans plastic bags, foam containers – Haiti – MiamiHerald.com.
Plastic and foam food containers are everywhere in this enterprising Caribbean nation — clogging canals, cluttering streets and choking ocean wildlife.
Now those pesky black plastic bags made of polyethylene and polystyrene foam cups, plates, trays and other containers that have become as ubiquitous as the vendors who peddle them in street markets are on their way out.
Haiti’s government has announced a ban on importing, manufacturing and marketing them as of Oct. 1.
Lamothe, the prime minister, said the crackdown is aimed at protecting Haiti’s coastlines, shores and what’s left of its mangroves. He acknowledges that the country has “a massive garbage issue” and environmentally toxic material clogs “95 percent of our sewage system, creating mass floods in poor neighborhoods… that is costing the state more than $50 million a year if we had the means to clean up.”
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