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? Bag ban boost for liners Tasmania News
Posted on May 24, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsBag ban boost for liners Tasmania News – The Mercury – The Voice of Tasmania.
Critics of the ban jumped on the statistics, saying the banhad simply resulted in more thicker, bigger bags ending up in landfill.
But Do Something! director Jon Dee said that was a furphy.
“The reduction in plastic bags has been massively reduced.”
We used 580 million plastic bags a year before the ban was imposed. Pullinger said it would not take Tasmanians long to get used to living without plastic check-out bags.
Plus by not giving out free plastic bags, and if people want to purchase bin liner bags we ought to be selling biodegradable (NOT degradeable) bin liner bags that will then biodegrade away in a landfill. That way we have no plastic bags remaining for 100’s of years or impeding landfill action. That is win-win for all.
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