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? BOS adopts plastic bag ban – California
Posted on May 23, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsBOS adopts plastic bag ban – Ukiah Daily Journal.
“Sweeney said state law prohibits any kind of charge for a plastic bag, leaving a ban as the only way to allay environmental damage caused when non-biodegradable plastic bags are thrown away, accumulating in massive quantities in the ocean and becoming part of the food chain as they break down into smaller pieces.”
How do we let lobbyists get away with passing a law to prohibit any kind of charge for a plastic bag?
Where is the sense in such a specific law?
How does a detailed law like this work for the betterment of the citizens?
Aren’t these pro business groups always harping on about the citizens freedom of choice and that any restriction should not be allowed. How is freedom of choice applying by stopping retailers from charging for an item they sell? This is hypocrisy at its finest with politicans passing laws that are infavour of a small group only.
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