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? Lawmakers target plastic bags, bottles – USA
Posted on September 19, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsLawmakers target plastic bags, bottles – Viewpoint – Plastics News.
California is poised to ban single-use plastic bags. At this point Gov. Jerry Brown could still veto the bill, but that seems extremely unlikely.
Meanwhile, there’s another battle taking place on the East Coast, this time over plastic containers. In Massachusetts, voters are being asked to expand the state’s deposit law to include bottled water and other non-carbonated beverages.
Lets hope the common sense of these state law makers will over come the irresponsible and thoughtless behaviour of the pro-plastic manufacturers.
A container deposit scheme will change bottle recycling from 25% to over 80%. That is a substantial change and a change for the good. Why the bottlers are against it is a mystery. They know sales will not drop. Perhaps all the collection of the bottles will highlight how many unnecessary bottles of drink are being consumed and that will then put the consumers off?
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