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? We just keep finding marine plastic
Posted on April 27, 2020 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: We just keep finding marine plastic | Cosmos
There’s mixed news in our fight against plastics that cause chaos in marine environments. We’re finding new ways to find it, but we’re still finding much too much of it.
In Australia, meanwhile, a research team led by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) believes it has recorded microplastic pollution in Antarctic sea ice for the first time.
Writing in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, it says analysis of an ice core collected in East Antarctica in 2009 found 96 microplastic particles from 14 different types of polymer.
Lead author Anna Kelly says plastic pollution has been recorded in Antarctic surface waters and sediments, as well as in Arctic sea ice, but this is thought to be the first time it has been found in Antarctic sea ice.
We need to reduce our use of plastic considerably.
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