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? Despite tax, Maryland shoppers still using plastic bags
Posted on February 19, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsDespite tax, Maryland shoppers still using plastic bags – News – Plastics News#email_sustain.
This evidence shows as has been shown many times before now that imposing a little charge on a plastic bag will drops it use by consumes by substantial amounts. This shows how little convenience value consumers put on them. If a fee is imposed a large majority of users simply switch to reusable bags in just a few months. Hence in spite of the plastic bag lobbying saying users will be severely disadvantaged if they can’t have their disposable plastic bags, it shows he opposite. Users move on to another way to live their lives without missing a beat.
This kind of evidence, should be used to implement many more far reaching plastic bag bans.
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