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? Maine enacts first statewide EPS food packaging ban – Plastics News – USA
Posted on May 3, 2019 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsMaine has become the first state to ban expanded polystyrene food containers, after Gov. Janet Mills signed legislation April 30 that prohibits selling or distributing them in the state. Mills said 14 cities and towns in the state have already passed local bans on disposable EPS food packaging, and
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It said the ban is part of what Maine needs to do to reduce pollution from plastic.
“With the threats posed by plastic pollution becoming more apparent, costly, and even deadly to wildlife, we need to be doing everything possible to limit our use and better manage our single-use plastics — starting with eliminating the use of unnecessary forms like plastic foam,” said Sarah Lakeman, director of the sustainable Maine program at NRCM.
Maine House member Stanley Zeigler, D-Montville, who sponsored the legislation, said the law would help the state’s tourism industry by controlling litter and aid local seafood industries by keeping plastic out of food chains.
As well he said it would support Maine businesses making alternative packaging from more locally sourced materials like paper.
Maine made the right decision. We don’t need that product. It is a huge environmental blight on the environment. Recycling of EPS is very difficult at best. The ban is the far more economic and better outcome
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