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? North Market Implements Ban on Single-Use Styrofoam Containers
Posted on March 23, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe North Market has gone environmental, this week announcing a building-wide ban on single-use styrofoam containers. Styrofoam, generically known as polystyrene, is a non-biodegradable plastic tha…
Source: North Market Implements Ban on Single-Use Styrofoam Containers
“We’re listening to our guests, and their consistent message has been to eliminate environmentally harmful Styrofoam products at the North Market,” said Jeff Pongonis, NMDA Board President, in a press release. “With consideration for our merchants and research into products offered as replacement for those currently in use, we’ve chosen to transition away from non-recyclable and single-use Styrofoam products. While long overdue at the Market, we hope to be a leader in the region and hope it will encourage other businesses to also transition to responsible products.”
Should other businesses or even the city as a whole follow the North Market’s lead, they’d be joining a long list of other U.S. places that have banned Styrofoam. More than 100 cities and counties in 11 states have made the move away from polystyrene, opting instead for biodegradable, non-carcinogenic containers.
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