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 plans to ban plastic bags – Botswana
Posted on July 11, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Tshekedi Khama has indicated that government is planning to ban the use of plastic carrier bags in the country.
Source: Mmegi Online :: Govt plans to ban plastic bags
The intent of this law was to reduce the use of plastic bags. Either a charge or a fee achieve the same thing. For a charge per bag, let the shops keep the fee is the simplest thing to do. That way there is no admin fees to chase. But you have to make sure they do charge the fee and not let it slide.
A ban is a simpler thing to do. Maybe black marketers will try to get around it, but stores would be heavily fined for handing out bags.
For Rre below. There is talk of biodegradable bags, but in reality there are none. Oxodegradable is bad for the environment as it fragments into little pieces of plastic. If they get buried in landfill, they don’t even do that. Compostable plastic is no good as people don’t have access to compost facilities. By far the best thing to do is stop using the bags. Make people bring reusable bags.
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