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? Beach Patrol looking for bright ideas to keep litter from ocean – Australia
Posted on July 23, 2019 by DrRossH in GeneralSource: Beach Patrol looking for bright ideas to keep litter from ocean
A dedicated group of south-west volunteers have been rewarded with a state government grant to continue their environmental work cleaning up the region’s beaches.
Beach Patrol 3280-3284 will receive $14,820 over two years to create educational and promotional materials with the aim of reducing the amount of litter entering the ocean from local sources.
Over the past 15 months members have collected marine debris data through beach clean-ups which has helped identify litter and its sources.
BeachPatrol is a large volunteer group performign over 500 cleans a year on beaches and in streets in Victoria Australia.
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