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? Supermarket ban sees ‘80% drop’ in plastic bag consumption nationwide – Australia
Posted on December 9, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAn estimated 1.5bn fewer bags have been used after major supermarket chains began phase out
Source: Supermarket ban sees ‘80% drop’ in plastic bag consumption nationwide
The ban on single-use plastic bags by Australia’s two largest supermarkets prevented the introduction of an estimated 1.5bn bags into the environment, and the retail industry is hopeful this is only the beginning.
Some shoppers objected to the change at the time but many others were strongly in support and three months on the change has translated to an 80% drop in the consumption of plastic bags nationwide, according to the National Retail Association.
“Indeed, some retailers are reporting reduction rates as high as 90%,” the NRA’s David Stout said on Sunday.
Stout said the ban pavedthe way for smaller businesses, who typically cannot afford to risk the wrath of their customers, to follow suit.
80% that is fantastic from such a simple move.
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