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? Petition to ban straws in California
Posted on August 11, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Straws
Jerry Brown: Clifornia Plastic Straw Ban
Source: Sign the Petition
In the United States, over 500 million plastic straws are used per day (enough to circumnavigate the planet twice) but because they are small and light weight, almost none ever make it to recycling bins. But what is not very well known is that an object so small, so ingrained in the culture of America, and so widely used, can be so deadly. In truth, even if the extra steps are taken towards recycling plastic straws, they are still technically not “recyclable”. Made out of polypropylene, a byproduct of petroleum, which takes a considerable amount of time to extract and create. As the straws move down the recycling conveyor belt, it and other small objects fall through the small holes and are filtered back to the landfill where they will remain for the rest of its enormous lifespan.
Also see #lastplasticstraw
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