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? Bans on Plastic Straws Are Growing. But Is the Travel Industry Doing Enough?
Posted on May 2, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic StrawsGlobal momentum has built in recent months to ban plastic straws and replace them with biodegradable paper ones. But cruise lines and luxury resorts are lagging.
Source: Bans on Plastic Straws Are Growing. But Is the Travel Industry Doing Enough?
Sonu Shivdasani, the chief executive of Soneva Resorts, a small luxury hotel chain emphasizing sustainability that banned single-use plastics in 2008, echoed that sentiment. “Hotels serve the richest 30 percent of the world’s population, and in doing so, consume far too many natural resources that weigh negatively, impacting the other 70 percent of society. We, as an industry, continue to consume far more than our fair share of resources.”
For luxury travelers, another question lingers: Why do high-end resorts have single-use plastic in their rooms in the first place? “Travelers spending over $400 a night on a hotel room shouldn’t be drinking from a cheap plastic bottle,” Mr. Mitchell said. “Plastic is not luxury.”
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