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? Tax on single-use virgin plastic resurfaces in Congress – USA
Posted on September 22, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA bill calling for a 20-cent tax on virgin plastic in single-use products is back in Congress, with its Democratic sponsors saying it’s needed to level the playing field for recycled materials.
Source: Tax on single-use virgin plastic resurfaces in Congress | Plastics News
A proposal for a sweeping 20-cent-per-pound fee on virgin, single-use plastic is back in the U.S. Congress, reigniting a debate on a tax that the industry spent more than $1 million to block two years ago.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, reintroduced the bill Sept. 19, saying it would boost the use of recycled plastic, provide funds for recycling infrastructure and put the plastics industry more on the hook for the cost of pollution.
“A polluter fee would hold the biggest plastics companies accountable for the damage they’ve caused and increase the amount of plastic that actually gets recycled,” Whitehouse said. “We are living with a flood of plastic pollution. Microplastics have reached the most remote parts of Antarctica, and they’ve been found in human blood and infant formula.”
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