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? Lot of hot air – Australia
Posted on June 5, 2017 by DrRossH in BalloonsThe sparks were flying at the recent council meeting, and all over helium balloons.
Source: Lot of hot air
“Here we are going to sacrifice the happiness of children… here we have a nanny state at its extreme,” he said.
As other councillors interjected with “fun police” and “fake news” remarks, Cr Myles continued: “Here we have a council intruding into peoples lives …. there have been sacrifices on the altar of some form of political expediency.
A fine example of right wing people not being able to think beyond their wallet. To say we should sacrifice the environment and its wildlife for the sake of ‘fun’ for kids is naïve. Have they also taught their kids to be so unimaginative they can’t think of anything else? It is a sad day when we have closed minded people like this in an office of power. These people are ‘representatives’ of the people, not there to promote their own personal agenda.
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