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? Tesco SCRAPS 5p plastic bags from all 3,500 stores – UK
Posted on August 9, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
TESCO will stop selling single-use plastic bags in its stores, replacing them with ‘bags for life’ at double the price.
Source: Tesco SCRAPS 5p plastic bags from all 3,500 stores
“But there is no such place as ‘away’ and millions of tonnes of plastic are ending up in our rivers, beaches, streets and in the sea every year, harming marine life.”
The Government ordered major retailers in England to stop giving away single use bags for free in October 2015, and ordered proceeds to go to charity.
Early figures collected in 2016 showed that customers in England took home six billion fewer bags in the first six months after the rule change.
At the end of 2016, the Marine Conservation Society said the number of bags found on British beaches had almost halved since the policy was introduced.
This is still a half measure and further action needs to be take to eliminate the disposable bags.
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