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? NY Mayor Bloomberg to propose ban on polystyrene foam packaging
Posted on February 19, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsNY Mayor Bloomberg to propose ban on polystyrene foam packaging – News – Plastics News.
We congratulate the Mayor on this stance. This is a product that should have been banned a long time ago for environmental damage and health reasons. With the population density of New York, the pollution from these containers will be huge. While the ACC says it is only a small percentage of the total waste therefore it is quite acceptable to continue to pollute the city with them. The profits of a few companies making these containers is not more important than the environmental well being of the city and its large number of inhabitants. The mayor needs to stay firm on this and a large number of people will be the beneficiaries of this action.
Organisations like the ACC always bring out the argument that it takes less energy to make one of these than it does a paper equivalent. This is because they have to steer the argument away from discussing the disposal side. In regards to disposal and environmental effects, they have no valid points to say. They well know these products are a environmental disaster.
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