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 makers brace for the start of Chicago’s bag ban
Posted on July 31, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe measure, which goes into effect Aug. 1, requires stores to provide shoppers with reusable or recyclable bags of any material or commercially compostable plastic bags. At the start, the restriction applies only to chain stores — defined as three or more under the same ownership — and franchises larger than 10,000 square feet. Smaller stores have another year before the ban affects them, and restaurants are exempt. Penalty fees can range from $300 to $500 for each day of infractions.
It does appear from this article that it is a good measure to take but sellers and bag manufacturers seem to be looking at ways to get around the meaning of the ban.
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