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 takes step back by reversing plastic bag ban
Posted on December 1, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsHume: Toronto takes step back by reversing plastic bag ban – thestar.com.
Such a regressive step by the council is causing shock amongst people concerned for the environment. Why would the councillors cower down to a group of plastic bag makers, makers of a product that has no real use and only causes a lot of pollution?
We can hope that some one on the council wakes up with a OMG what have we done and puts it back on the agenda. All big cities will eventually ban or charge for plastic bags in the near future, and Toronto councillors needs a large a kick to get back on the proper road for their city.
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