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? San Francisco Becomes First City To Ban The Sale Of Plastic Bottles – Check Out The Healthy World
Posted on November 13, 2016 by DrRossH in GeneralBy Amanda Froelich Plastic pollution is one of the greatest burdens to the environment. Believe it or not, enough plastic is discarded every year to circle the globe four times. Even worse, it is estimated that 50% of the plastic on this planet is used only once before being thrown away. To curb the issue of plastic pollution, the city of San Francisco
Source: San Francisco Becomes First City To Ban The Sale Of Plastic Bottles – Check Out The Healthy World
Excellent work San Francisco. With such a highly littered item and a single use item that goes to landfill and those resources are lost, they need to be banned in almost all places. If Coke of Pepsi really cared about the Environmental damage their products causing, then they would be reusing the bottles a few times before landfilling them. This would cut down on their production and wastage substantially. But they do not care and continue to make a new bottle for every bottle sold. How wasteful!
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