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? 
Non-biodegradable plastic bags polluting HCMC Vietnam
Posted on May 1, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
SGGP English Edition- Non-biodegradable plastic bags polluting HCMC.
Here at PWS we see a similar theme across many countries and states with in countries such as this plastic bag issue. unless you are made aware of it, then a plastic bag ban in your western city might seem draconian. However when the bigger global pictures is compiled, there is this picture of so many places struggling with the issue of plastic bag damage to the environment, to infrastructure, to people’s health and psyche.
We have to come to grips with reality, these disposable plastic bags are a product that should not be allowed any more. Their time is done.
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