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? Trashing Politics – Philippines
Posted on May 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsTrashing Politics | Tempo – News in a Flash.
The bag manufacturers always bring out this argument, a plastic bag uses less water and less energy to make than a plastic bag. They are trying to divert the discussion away from the disposal issues of their plastic bags, as they have no argument there as their bags are not biodegradable, they do not go away, they last 100’s of years polluting and clogging things. . The plastic bag waste is a bad problem and manufacturers have to be responsible for part of the problem. They just want to produce lots of bags for a profit and have no care for the environment.
Banning bags is simply good the for the environment. The argument above about 150% more weight is scare tactics. If their calculations were true, it is based on the assumption of if everyone who took a plastic bag would instead take a paper bag. In other places where bag bans have been introduced, people switch to reusable bags, not take as many paper bags. Then the rubbish weight actually goes down as does the energy required.
Banning the plastic bags is the right thing to do.
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