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 Hague and Utrecht are going to ban air balloons – Netherlands
Posted on February 22, 2019 by DrRossH in BalloonsNo more balloons will be allowed in The Hague and Utrecht soon. It is still unknown when the prohibition comes into effect and what kind of penalty will be imposed on it.
Source: The Hague and Utrecht are going to ban air balloons | tellerreport.com
“The remnants of balloons are being eaten by fish, birds and other animals, and therefore cause a lot of animal suffering due to entanglement in ribbons or starvation after eating balloon remains”, says alderman Richard de Mos from The Hague.
We don’t need them at all, banning them is no loss to any one who cares about the environment we and the wildlife live in.
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