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? Plastic Bag Ban on Its Way Back to Council – Toronto
Posted on November 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPlastic Bag Ban on Its Way Back to Council | news | Torontoist.
That, above, is the language that city council will consider at the end of this month when it is asked to take its final vote on the surprise decision to ban plastic bags [PDF]. That decision came about (to the amusement of some and consternation of others) while Mayor Rob Ford was trying to make plastic bags easier to get, not harder, by eliminating the five-cent plastic bag fee that had been introduced under David Miller in 2009. Council did indeed agree to get rid of that fee—but at the same meeting decided to ban the bags altogether.
It is so disappointing that some one in a postion of high resposibility like tjhe Mayor of Toronto, would go backwards on a law that was already in place and working so well. Toronto had a 5 cent fee on bags and it was having a large effect we understood. So why would a Mayor of all people go back on this?
It reads as though this new ban was o shaky ground now.
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