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? First they came for the glitter, now it’s the balloons – Australia
Posted on March 2, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsBalloon bans aren’t anything new, with at least three Melbourne councils putting a stop to the party decorations before Darebin Council prohibited them.
Source: First they came for the glitter, now it’s the balloons
Darebin, which takes in Northcote, Thornbury and Preston, grabbed the city’s attention after it voted to ban balloons, along with other single-use plastics, on council land this week.
But Port Phillip, Banyule and Monash councils have already passed balloon bans in light of research showing they are polluting waterways and killing wildlife.
In our Melbourne Beach litter survey, Balloons and straws are in the top 4 items that are found along a beach tide line.
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