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? Bottled water ban back on Concord’s agenda
Posted on April 9, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsBottled water ban back on Concord’s agenda – PlasticsNews.
Banning small bottles of water is a very sound concept. If people need to buy water, then buying a big one is very little more cost than buying a small one. But the reduction in litter is substantial. For every 4 littered half liter bottles, they would be replaced by one 2 liter bottle. That is a good trade off.
Small plastic bottles are so inefficient with plastic resources too. They are a blatant waste of material that could be used for more worthy products. And per bottle, they require a whole lot of energy compared to a larger bottle.
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