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? Coral found to be eating plastic waste in the ocean – News – Australia
Posted on March 2, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeResearchers found that coral tried to eat small pieces of plastic, raising renewed concerns for the level of plastic waste floating in the ocean.
CORAL HAS JOINED a growing list of marine organisms that have been found (pdf) to eat plastic floating in the ocean, but researchers warn it is probably not good for them. The finding adds more weight to the calls for plastic waste in the ocean to be addressed.
He called for plastic manufacturers to have greater stewardship of their product for the whole of its life.
“Plastics are going to be around forever. They’re such a useful product. We just have to ensure that we do recycle them… There’s no silver bullet for this. It’s just about everyone doing their bit everywhere and obviously the creators of these products have a large role to play.”
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