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? Govt blocks plastic bag ban
Posted on March 23, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsGovt blocks plastic bag ban – The West Australian.
How can we improve our environment with a government that lives in the past. Wait on the results of another study means they were lobbied by industry groups and lack the foresight to look to the future. West Australia will be the worse off for it now. The state of Victoria in Australia recently decided to not pass a bill for a container deposit scheme that would clean up littered bottles in Victoria and change recycling from 30% to over 80% and create a number of jobs. They cited “let’s wait for another study result”. Do we see a pattern here with the pro business Liberal government thinking?
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