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? City bowing to the ‘Yuk’ factor with green bins – Canada
Posted on July 30, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsGuelphMercury – City bowing to the ‘Yuk’ factor with green bins.
This is amazing that people think that the smell of their green bins is more important than a whole community waste management system. Compostable bags do not always biodegrade in the place they are disposed to and when they don’t they can cause a lot of problems clogging machinery.
People hate change it seems. When we are on the wrong road, we have to change course to get back on track. Puttiing plastic bags in green bins just because it prevents their bin from smelling is on the wrong road.
We need to get on and understand what a sustainable path or road is.
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