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? Time to be more Critical of our Use of Plastics
Posted on September 29, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News“But the time has come to be more critical of our use of plastics”
This is very true. At the moment we would have to say we have ‘irresponsible’ use of plastic. If the manufacturers supplying the plastic items were held partially responsible for the recovery and recycling of their plastic items then we would see a much better situation. At the moment however where manufacturers can produce whatever they want with no care or consequence then we have this large plastic waste problem.
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