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? Pittsfield Subcommittee Continues Debate On Plastic Bag Ban – USA
Posted on March 14, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPITTSFIELD, Mass. — The proposed plastic bag ban will remain at the subcommittee level for councilors to wordsmith the ordinance and consider alternative bag options. After…
Source: Pittsfield Subcommittee Continues Debate On Plastic Bag Ban
A few local businesses could appreciate the lower cost option. A representative from Stop and Shop estimated that it would cost the store $120,000 more a year. She said the store uses 3.3 million plastic bags per year and that would then have to be shifted to the more expensive paper bags. Meanwhile, Berkshire Wine and Liquor suggesting the city instead adopt a mandatory 5 cent charge for plastic bags instead so the businesses don’t have to should the cost of the switch.
Council Vice President John Krol, however, said the cost increase won’t be nearly as dramatic. He said when bag bans are put in place most residents switch to reusable carriers.
This is a simple discussion. The people debating this seem to be not qualified to hold or understand this discussion. Ban the bag and be done. Most people will bring in their reusable bags and the costs to stores to ‘give out’ plastic bags will drop substantially. Even one will be happy and just find something else to complain about after a few months. As happens everywhere when this is done.
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