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? DEFRA: Re-use will be considered in carrier bags exemption assessment – UK
Posted on June 22, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPeter Davis (British Plastics Federation) had voiced concerns that the consultation appeared to be working on the assumption that a plastic carrier bag is used only once, which he insisted was not correct.
“It misleads since we can prove the vast majority of such bags are reused and should be exempt from the charge,” he wrote.
The blind biased criticism by of some of these people with a vested interest in keeping thee polluting plastic bags out in the environment so they can maintain their profits is shameful.
Plastic bags end up in the environment. They do not go away. To stop this, their use needs to be curtailed severely and let people use other options. It is not a big imposition as the bag sellers would have us believe. After 12 months of a bag ban in Italy, the people said they did not want to go back to the plastic bag. It is the ‘end of life’ where this discussion has to be held. Not on the way they are made or how many times they are reused, or how many jobs are going to be ‘lost’ or how plastic bags are miraculously somehow ‘better’ than a natural paper bag.
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