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? 
Selectman, business leader push back against teen’s balloon ban proposal – USA
Posted on August 31, 2018 by DrRossH in Balloons
“My opinions on this are very strong. … I have a real problem with banning individual items for sale,” a local businessman said.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, and obituaries from the Bangor Daily News.
Source: Selectman, business leader push back against teen’s balloon ban proposal
Town committees and organizations have already responded to Jones’ education on the dangers of balloons, and have stopped using them during celebrations. May Day organizers replaced balloons with streamers, and both the Kennebunk Police Department and the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Arundel Chamber of Commerce have stopped using balloons during recent outdoor events.
Good luck to Will Jones and we hope he can get his goal approved. The 2 balloon sellers in his town say banning is not the right way to go, but why should we let their profits overrule our natural beaches and outdoors which is worth a lot more to the community than those two businesses personal profits.
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