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? Toronto bans plastic bags
Posted on June 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsToronto bans plastic bags – The Globe and Mail.
Congratulations to Toronto for going from a 5 cent fee for a bag or provide a free alternative reusable bag or box, which was recently overturned by their mayor (for who know what reasons) to the implementing a outright bag ban. Their city will be better off. While some retailers bemoan they will lose sales as people will not buy products from then as the store can’t give them a bag to take their good away in, which is unlikely to enter into the purchase decision really, to other store owners saying it gives them a chance to sell reusable bags now so they could be better off.
Either way getting rid of free plastic bags that last for 100s of years for just a few minutes of use is the real ludicrous situation. Why their mayor doesn’t understand that hints of another agenda.
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