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? Bill blocking South Carolina cities from passing plastic bag bans heads to House floor – USA
Posted on February 2, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsCOLUMBIA — The Statehouse move to ban local governments from banning plastic bags is picking up steam.
Source: Bill blocking South Carolina cities from passing plastic bag bans heads to House floor
This is a terrible state of affairs. for the people. Here we have a bunch of right wing politicians putting business affairs over ever thing else. Do they not care about the environment for their kids? Obviously not.
The bag makers have had years of warnings that their bags were a big problem and things had to change. But instead of heeding all the warnings they kept their head in the sand and cry foul when the issue comes up, then going running with lobbying funds in hand to their local politician to buy their vote. And we call this a democracy. More a shamocracy.
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