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 last straw: plastic is out and green is in – Australia. But don’t be fooled by
Posted on July 24, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic StrawsDemand for plastic straws is drying up as customers look to environmentally friendly alternatives.
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The owner has invested in two other alternatives to plastic, including oxobiodegradable or oxo-bio straws, and PLA straws made with polylactic acid vegetable starch. Both are biodegradable, food-grade and have a shelf life of more than 12 months.
We should not be allowing either of these to be used.
An oxo-bio straw will fragment into little piece of plastic after 12 -18 months. We do not want this item in existence at all.
A PLA straw is NOT biodegradable in almost every place on the planet. It will biodegrade if sent to a commercial compost facility that keeps it above 60 deg, lots of oxygen and moisture. Otherwise it will not biodegrade. Another item that should not be in existence. it is just conning the consumer with false information.
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