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? The Biggest Environmental Problem You’ve Never Heard Of – Jul 27 2016 08:00 AM – Breaking News – Pollution Solutions Online
Posted on July 31, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsWhile plastic packaging constitutes a high percentage of this waste, there is another key contributing factor to oceanic pollution, and it’s one you probably had no idea was happening: microfibers. These tiny fibres are found in synthetic clothing, such as fleeces and other non-woollen thermals, and can actually be released during ordinary washing machine cycles. After being washed down the pipes with the dirty laundry water, they are then brought to wastewater treatment plants… where the particles are so small that a significant percentage of them escape the filtration process. The end result? Huge amounts of microfibers in our oceans and streams. –
Car and truck tyres as the run along the road have to shed small ‘splinters’ of rubber by their very definition to provide traction on to the road surface. This is also leading to massive accumulation of synthetic rubber in our waterways that also end up in the ocean. It is non biodegradable so acts like a plastic and will cause similar issues.
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