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? 
Life peer raises question over plastic bag tax – UK
Posted on June 3, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
A product that we should no longer be using
To ban the bags or charge at least 10 cents for them is the minimum that needs to be done. The idea of giving out an item for free that we know is causing immeasurable environmental damage around the world is ludicrous. If they are free people put no value on them and just use way too many of them which is why they are such a problem. Making the consumer pay for them will have a huge difference as evidenced in Ireland. What is the harm in charging for them? Are the politicians scared it will put the cost of living up? The grocery stores already pay for them so why not the consumer? The bag manufacturers certainly do not want them banned or to be charged for as their profits will fall. By what is the government roll? To support the profits of a few or protect the country for all the people?
Charge for the bags, use the funds raised to help out on waste education schemes for the public and better the country further still.
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