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? Ruidoso News joins TerraCycle initiative
Posted on April 16, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeRuidoso News joins TerraCycle initiative.
As we see the endless debris fields in our oceans, my heart grew heavy at our boundless waste, especially non-biodegradable plastic waste,” Mohr said. “This waste not only harms many animal species, it interrupts the cycle of oceanic food production. Now due to the vast debris field caused by these non-biodegradable products we use everyday, attempts to locate downed aircraft are hampered. We can no longer stand by and not participate in a solution.”
We have to stop the irresponsible behaviour of manufacturers who they ink they can make any product they want and not have to deal with the problems of disposal of it. The cost of a approve disposal method has to be built into a product. Plastic is cheap to produce but can be expensive to dispose of. The manufacturers who make these decisions as to material selection need to also factor is disposal costs of the different materials. Then we might get more responsible products that are not destroying our oceans like we are doing now.
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