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? Speaker: Plastic production must be reduced to address marine debris – Europe
Posted on November 4, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsDüsseldorf, Germany — The world must stop producing and consuming more and more plastic if the issue of marine litter is to be addressed effectively, warned a leading German conservation group.Cornelius Detloff, of the Naturschuzbund Deutschland (NABU), said manufacturers have to
Source: Speaker: Plastic production must be reduced to address marine debris – Plastics News
“The plastics industry has to join in a dialogue and discussion on how to tackle this problem,” Detloff said.
“Industry needs to strengthen its social and ecological responsibilities, and when going into new countries for the first time, it needs to help those markets develop effective waste management strategies,” he said.
The plastics industry has a lot to answer for. Yes no one would argue that plastic has solved many problems. But the reckless behaviour of the industry to pump out so many disposable plastic products that every one knows will end up being littered, getting into the ocean, blocking drains and so on. These items are the ones that make up a lot of the oceans plastics. These have to be curtailed and drastically. We do not need many of these at all. Don’t’ need plastic bags, don’t need plastic straws, don’t need stretch wrap and many many more products that have a one time life of a few minutes.
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