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? EPA plans plastic bag ban, calls for facility’s readiness – Taiwan
Posted on June 24, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is planning to prohibit stores from offering free plastic bags to customers in an attempt to reduce plastic bag consumption, while a mothballed incinerator in Yunlin County should be ready for activation to increase the nation’s waste treatment capacity, EPA Minister Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) said yesterday.
Source: EPA plans plastic bag ban, calls for facility’s readiness – Taipei Times
“Taiwanese use 18 billion plastic bags every year. That means a person uses 782 plastic bags in just a year’s time, which is four times as many plastic bags used by Europeans and Australians,” Kurczewski wrote on the campaign’s Web page, questioning Taiwan’s consumer behavior.
Excessive and thoughtless use of plastic bags damages the environment, and the Taiwanese government should require consumers to pay NT$5 for each plastic bag, Kurczewski wrote.
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