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? Man-made epoch dawns
Posted on April 17, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsMan-made epoch dawns – The Age Education Resource Centre.
Ranking up there with global warming, that will have a profound effect on the earth and how our lifestyles will have to change, the issue of plastic waste accumulation is another factor that will be with the next generations for 100’s or years or more, detracting from their potential lifestyles. They will look back in time and say how could you have been that selfish to use all those resources and make this great of a pollution problem that you have left for us.
The Anthropocene epoch will have a plastic layer of plastic bags, bottles forks, distributed though out it. Our products of 2 minutes of convenience will be part of a geological epoch. Is that what we want to be known for?
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