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? Spring Hill mayor won’t impose recycling ‘ideologies’ onto residents
Posted on November 8, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News“I do not believe it is the government’s role to force its personal ideologies onto everyone, especially when it involves increasing the rates that our residents have to pay for a service,”
We believe the mayor could have thought through this more. He says it is not the governments role to interfere with personal decisions. What about the interference of a few for the betterment of many of his citizens. A clean environment is every bodies right to enjoy. Just because a few people care to litter does that make it ok for the rest of us to suffer for it? No it does not. The lack of recycling and the loss of all that material to a landfill or litter is a cost to his people, not a direct cost but a secondary cost in the higher price of energy, in materials, in property taxes to pay for highway clean up campaigns and environmental quality. So his people are already paying more. ‘$5 a week is a big issue’ at the expense of creating all those recycling jobs, saving valuable resources, and a cleaner environment. That is weak and poorly thought out comment. We urge the mayor to look at the big picture for his people and become a leader for them not a weakling who cowers down to a $5 a week cost for something we ALL know is a good thing.
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