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? 12-year-old girl makes anti-plastics headlines – Illinois
Posted on July 8, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations12-year-old girl makes anti-plastics headlines – PlasticsNews.
The state of Illinois is considering making it a law for any organisation in the state to ‘ban a plastic bag’. This just raises so many questions about corporate lobbying and bribery that must be going on. Why would anyone try to pass a law to stop groups from banning a product? This is indeed unusual. If a city thinks it is in their financial and environmental interests to restrict some activity and it has the support of the people then they should be able to do it. Why would that state prevent this from happening? What is in it for the state? Clearly the politicians at that level are out of touch with their constituents and succumbing to lobbying funds.
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