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? South Florida lawmaker wants to ban plastic bags, straws
Posted on January 31, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA South Florida lawmaker wants to ban plastic bags and straws.
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It would ban stores and food service businesses from giving plastic carryout bags and plastic straws to customers. Instead, they would get bags and straws made from natural or certain synthetic materials.
This would apply to restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, convenience stores, drug stores, liquor stores, movie theaters, and other businesses.
Stores that break the law would be fined up to $500 for the first violation, and up to $1,000 for the second.
In the U.S. alone, we use 100 billion plastic bags every year, according to the Earth Policy Institute.
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