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? UAE brings forward ban on disposable plastics
Posted on March 12, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsUAE brings forward ban on disposable plastics.
We applaud the UAE for this stance, it is necessary for sheer volume of disposable plastic now being manufactured.
Unfortunately they have not made a wise decision on the use of the oxodegradable additive for their plastic bags. These bags will fragment into little pieces and allow plastic to blow around their country and in the ocean potentially doing more damage that what the non fragmenting bag is doing. They will not biodegrade and no ASTM or equivalent test data has been produced to show that. It has only been a big salesman ship effort in reality.
An outright ban on the bags would be better and safer for all.
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