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? Waste Management Explain Plastic-Bag Ban to Vendors – St. Croix Source
Posted on November 16, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: Waste Management Explain Plastic-Bag Ban to Vendors | St. Croix Source
Eight vendors showed up at the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority town hall meeting at the St. Croix Curriculum Center to learn what they had to do to comply with ban on plastic bags.
Kelvin Vidal, VIWMA general counsel, gave a presentation and answered questions.
Amanda Bradshaw, representing Frederiksted’s Stop and Shop, wondered whether biodegradable bags would be allowed. She quickly got her answer: “No.”
“We want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem,” said Shawn Hamed, representing the Plaza West grocery store.
Good progressive moves by the Virgin Islands to protect their precious lands.
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