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? Minister rules out plastic bag ban in Queensland – Australia
Posted on July 14, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsMinister rules out plastic bag ban in Queensland | Coffs Coast Advocate.
The state government in Queensland is showing it self time and time again it is willing to forgo the environment just to get a few jobs happy. This is very short term thinking of them and we all know that sooner or later a plastic bag ban will happen all across Australia. They do a lot of damage with wildlife and visual pollution and create landfill problems and they are completely unnecessary. Shoppers can get by with reusable bags for no cost. So why not do it?
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