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? Lowell to weigh ban on single-use plastic bags USA
Posted on April 26, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsLOWELL — Get ready for a cleaner city in 2019. That’s the hope from environment advocates after the City Council voted Tuesday night to move forward with a plastic-bag ban.
Source: Lowell to weigh ban on single-use plastic bags
Councilor Karen Cirillo, the chair of that committee and who had first proposed this idea back in January, said it’s critical for the city to ban plastic bags, “helping the environment and moving the city forward.”
“This is something we need to do,” added Councilor Jim Milinazzo.
More than 60 communities across the state have banned plastic bags. Westford recently passed a bylaw, which will go into effect in 2019.
Stores there will be required to offer recyclable paper bags or reusable bags instead, although certain kinds of disposable bags, such as those for produce and newspaper, will be allowed.
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