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? Real Recycling for Massachusetts Reaches 500 Members; Pushes for meaningful recycling reform, opposes costly and ineffective bottle bill expansion
Posted on March 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThis is the short minded attitude that some business owners who put their immediate profits as more important than a some care for their environmental surrounds. For too long this attitude has pervaded. In the past it was gotten away with because there were less people and less plastic trash. Now with more people and manufacturers producing more and more plastic packaging, and manufacturers absolving themselves of any responsibility of the problems their packaging causes once disposed of, the time has come to face up to these issues. A shift in the way we used to do this is needed to attain a new sustainable balance. This is going to involve incentive schemes for both consumers and manufacturers to take more responsibility for their actions. Only then will we be able to manage this lifestyle without sacrificing our environment. Let’s not forget the life style we enjoy depends a large part on our interaction with our environment. Why should that be sacrificed for the sake of the profits of a few?
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