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? Washington to take deeper look at ocean plastic with Save Our Seas Act 2.0 – USA
Posted on July 2, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Washington to take deeper look at ocean plastic with Save Our Seas Act 2.0
The bill proposes making plastic waste a bigger part of U.S. trade policy, looking at barriers to plastics recycling and setting up a revolving loan fund for states.
The legislation, called Save Our Seas Act 2.0, builds on more modest legislation passed last year and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
Well done to bring this to this high level, but it many ways it needs to start at home too. The use of single use plastic in the USA per person is so high. Very high. If that was curtailed (and it could be curtained a lot with no real impact to people) then the demand for the plastic from these 10 sources would be reduced. Can they work on that too is the question?
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