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? Tobacco, plastic bag bans spur SC debate over who makes rules – USA
Posted on February 19, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSC lawmakers have been unusually busy the last three years stepping on city and county toes, trying to limit what locals can do to regulate vaping, plastic bags and more. The winner? Big business, critics say
Source: Tobacco, plastic bag bans spur SC debate over who makes rules | The State
Banning plastic bag bans
Last year, legislators attempted a similar override of local rules when the House approved restrictions on local governments banning single-use plastic bags. The bill died in the state Senate, and some local S.C. governments since have extended their plastic bans to cover other items, including straws.
The USA form of government has been so corrupted by big business buying decisions in their favour to the extent that government and the people have become disjoint entities. No longer do we Government for the people and by the people. Now it is Government for Industry and by Industry.
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