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? County Wants Your Help to Ban the Bag – Half Moon Bay, CA
Posted on June 3, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsCounty Wants Your Help to Ban the Bag – Half Moon Bay, CA Patch.
Ban the bag is the best way to go. We have proved year after year they will not get recycled so not the ban is the best way to go. Any one who complains about an over reaching government, needs to take a deep breath and look at the consequences of what these bags do and then see that it is not government strongarm tactics but an essential step for our environment. Plastic bag manufacturers have conned people into thinking they are harmless and better than alternatives but this is not true. Ask any landfill operator or any marine biologist.
We can farm trees and plant new ones for the ones we cut down, so using paper bags (while not the preferred option either as compared to reusable cloth bags) is still far better than using a plastic ‘last for ever’ bag.
Think about our environment first before blaming the government. The government is just doing what we the public could not do, i.e. keep plastic bags out of the environment.
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