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? Bourne Board Of Health Still Not In Favor Of Plastic Bag Ban – USA
Posted on August 21, 2016 by DrRossH in GeneralBoard takes all or nothing approach to proposed ban
Source: Bourne Board Of Health Still Not In Favor Of Plastic Bag Ban
However, they were more adamant in their position that they should not ban just the two-handled bags, but all types of plastic bags.
“We have to be consistent. We can’t deviate and say, ‘This plastic bag is going to be a health issue, but the other plastic bag isn’t.’ Either they all are, or they all aren’t,”
“They are useful for about five minutes, and then for the next thousand years-plus, they just continue to break down,”
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