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? Seselja wins business support over vow to repeal plastic ban – Australia
Posted on August 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSeselja wins business support over vow to repeal plastic ban.
It is really hard to imagine taking backward steps. A great thing has been introduced and helping out the environment at no cost to anyone. Partisan politics are costing this country a fortune for short sighted vote garnering.
The last commenter has to get over this ‘I should have the right to make my own decisions and act as I like, not be controlled by governments’. This is a common theme amongst people who don’t understand what is happening and how our quality of life is being eroded by corporate profits buying political decisions. There are many things wrong with our current behaviour and trying to find out the facts is very difficult not knowing who to believe. Manufacturers spin how good their products are and hiding all the negative consequence of those products. It takes a concerted effort to filter though many comments and reports by a wide range of people to start to see what is the behind the scenes pictures of our current lifestyle. For a person to make this ‘my right ..’ claim is just putting their head in the sand and letting our environment and health be eroded while they sip their lattes in oblivion. As a society we do need help by people expert in their field to protect our lifestyle. An individual cannot know everything, we simply don’t have that free time to delve into everything. There are a number of people who put their personal wealth much higher than our societal health. We banned DDT in the 60s as it was deemed harmful to our health. What happened to the ‘It is my right to use DDT..’ back then?
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