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? Calif. bag ban bill passes Senate committee
Posted on July 22, 2012 by DrRossH in BioPlastics, Plastic Limiting RegulationsPlastics News – Calif. bag ban bill passes Senate committee.
A California Senate committee gave its OK on a bill that would issue a ban on the distribution of plastic bags by retailers in the state.
But there are a lot of exemptions that woould water down the effectiveness of it.
The bill offers some exceptions, as the store must have a gross annual sales of more than $2 million, have at least 10,000 square feet of retail space or is a convenience store or food store. Stores would be allowed to offer paper bags and compostable bags for sale.
However a statewide ban is a very good move. The list of exemptions included compostable bags which is ironic. Compostable bags do not biodegrade unless they are taken to a special commercial composting facility. Since about 95% of bags go to a landfill, then compostable bags will not be biodegrading and will present just a big of a problem as the regualr bags are doing now. So they are acheivng little except making more profits for the compostable plasics manufacturers. Do they not realise this?
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