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? Will Oregon become the second state to ban plastic shopping bags? – USA
Posted on February 21, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsLawmakers, environmental groups and the grocery industry are supporting a bill to get rid of single-use bags statewide.
Source: Will Oregon become the second state to ban plastic shopping bags?
Lawmakers, environmental groups and the grocery industry are supporting a bill to get rid of the bags statewide, with a few exceptions.
“As Oregonians, we live in one of the most beautiful places on earth. We have the responsibility to protect the natural resources our environment and our economy depend on,” Rep. Carla Piluso, D-Gresham, one of the bill’s sponsors, said ahead of a public hearing on the proposal Tuesday afternoon.
House Bill 2509, which supporters call the Sustainable Shopping Initiative, would prohibit retail establishments from providing any bag except a recycled paper bag to customers at checkout.
AS amazing as it is that people still live their own little world and thing like this person – “I am the only one qualified to choose the right bag for me, even if it means 100 percent virgin bleached paper,” resident Karen Darnell wrote in submitted testimony. “I don’t give consent to this market intervention.”. She cannot be aware of the all the implications of this and to make a decision based on her personal choice is making a choice based on ignorance.
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