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? Bioplastics not coming through on Promises
Posted on January 16, 2012 by DrRossH in BioPlasticsThe link shows another example of the promise of Bioplastics disappointing many people with its lack of success. Bioplastics or plastics made from plants, commonly have the same disposal problems as conventional plastics. While industry manufacturers would lead us to believe they are biodegradable with the name ‘bioplastics’ they are generally not and those that are claimed biodegradable in commercial compost facilities are coming under increasing scrutiny as they are not biodegrading there either.
Yet another education process for the consumer to go through to understand the bioplastic product they preferentially purchased in order to help the environment is green washing and they are still have the same problem as before with their plastic disposal. See this link.
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