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? Unity residents OK ordinance prohibiting mass balloon releases – UK
Posted on April 4, 2019 by DrRossH in BalloonsThe new rule approved at Town Meeting bans the release of 10 or more balloons within a 24-hour period.
Source: Unity residents OK ordinance prohibiting mass balloon releases
UNITY — Residents on Saturday approved a new ordinance prohibiting the intentional release of 10 or more balloons within a 24-hour period.
The Balloon Release Ordinance was approved by about 60 residents who attended Town Meeting in a show-of-hands vote at the Unity School gymnasium.
Exceptions include balloons released for scientific or meteorological purposes, hot air balloons that are recovered after launching, balloons released indoors and balloons that are biodegradable.
We wonder about this last statement however. Balloons that are biodegradable. They only biodegrade if put in a environment where there are lots of microbes. If they get loose in the environment and the ocean they will not biodegrade and will still cause as much damage anyway. So the need to not exempt ‘biodegradable’ balloons.
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