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? HOUSE DEMOCRATS SEEK CRACKDOWN ON MICROPLASTICS – USA
Posted on May 27, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsHouse Democrats want to crack down on small plastic pellets that have grown notorious for their links to environmental contamination.
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation yesterday targeting the discharge of the pellets, often called “nurdles,” into the environment. The “Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act” would direct EPA to draft regulations prohibiting the discharge of that material into vulnerable water systems.
“For too long, the plastics industry has been allowed to police itself when it comes to ensuring their pellets don’t end up in the environment,” Lowenthal, chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, said in a statement.
“The industry has failed abysmally, and with that failure created an environmental problem of crisis levels. It is time for the plastics industry to step up and cover the costs of ensuring their products remain in their facilities and do not end up in our environment.”
This should have been in place decades ago.
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