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? Keep the plastic bag ban on N.C. coast – USA
Posted on April 28, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsLegislators are pushing a repeal of a plastic bag ban on the Outer Banks. But Outer Banks residents – and the businesses the bills are supposed to help – say they want to keep the ban in place.
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HB 271 and S. 434 cite no evidence that voluntary plastic bag recycling programs would be a comparable replacement. In fact, the evidence shows the opposite. Plastic bag recycling is costly: a ton of plastic bags costs $4,000 to recycle, but can be sold for only $32 – a loss of $3,968 per ton. Plastic bag recycling is also difficult: bags cannot be collected with other recyclables because thin film plastics clog sorting machines. These factors discourage recycling, and many recyclers no longer accept plastic bags.
Why would a law be repealed? Why wold senators and congressmen want to repeal this law. The only reason is they must have taken funds from the bag companies who must care nothing for he environment only about their profits. Shameful.
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