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? To plastic or not to plastic, that is the question…
Posted on March 2, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsA good article describing the shocking woes in the Philippines due to the problem of plastic bags blocking drains causing flooding, high levels of visible pollution, and squalid conditions.
To plastic or not to plastic, that is the question… | BusinessWorld Online Edition.
If the plastic bag manufacturers are concerned about their jobs, then let them switch to making paper bags and other biodegradable bags and retain their jobs. Yes it costs to switch a plant over from one production to another production, but this is minimal compared to the cost of the damage that plastic bags are doing to their economy.
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