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? Drowning in plastic: The nation must commit to reducing and reusing – USA
Posted on June 25, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsOur abundant material blessings should make us mindful, not careless.
Source: Drowning in plastic: The nation must commit to reducing and reusing
Modest efforts have been underway for at least a decade. Since 2009, fees or outright bans on plastic bags in Washington, D.C., and a few smaller U.S. cities have spread and picked up steam. But the era of sweeping regulation is upon us. The European Union voted in March to ban many single-use plastics by 2021. Canada followed suit in early June.
The USA is particularly prone to lobbying efforts from larger corporations to protect their profits at the expense of the rest of the population. Call it freedom of choice, but it is still companies controlling the government. This will have a large detrimental effect on plastic wastage management for years.
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