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? Let’s sack plastic bags – USA
Posted on August 21, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe U.S. alone uses 12 million barrels of oil every year to meet plastic bag demands.
Source: Let’s sack plastic bags – Auburn Reporter
The U.S. alone uses 12 million barrels of oil every year to meet plastic bag demands. It is estimated that 90 percent of plastic bags in the U.S. are not recycled. Every year in the U.S one hundred billion plastic bags are discarded. Because plastic bags take nearly 1,000 years to break down, the bags we throw away today will far outlive us in dumps, landfills or in our oceans. The plastic bag tossed aside today will break down in 3016.
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