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? Opponents cite dangers of balloon releases to wildlife – USA
Posted on September 6, 2017 by DrRossH in BalloonsHARDYSTON — A release of 100 helium-filled balloons on Saturday to increase awareness of childhood cancer is also being used by those who want to raise awareness of the hazards of what happens when those balloons inevitably return to Earth.
Source: Opponents cite dangers of balloon releases to wildlife
A release of 100 helium-filled balloons on Saturday to increase awareness of childhood cancer is also being used by those who want to raise awareness of the hazards of what happens when those balloons inevitably return to Earth.
“I’m concerned about the long-term effects of these balloons,” said Paige Coyne, a resident of the Lake Stockholm community where the launch took place at noon Saturday.
Do we think a dying child would want wildlife harmed in his last days. I think it is the parents or others invovled with the unfortunate child that want this rather than the child. We need to listen to the kids before imposing our own blind perceptions.
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