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? Wal-Mart’s Canadian stores to charge for plastic bags
Posted on February 1, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWal-Mart Stores Inc. shoppers across Canada will soon have to pay for the privilege of carrying their purchases out of the store in a plastic bag.
Wal-Mart stores in Canada will charge 5 cents each for thin-film bags beginning Feb. 9 in British Columbia, and rolling out progressively across the rest of the provinces over the following months, the retail giant announced Jan. 25. The 5-cent bags will be offered only on customer request and reusable bags will be sold at a discounted 25 cents.
If they actually do this and do it soon it will be a big break through that hopefully other stores will then follow.
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