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 use in England is on the rise
Posted on July 21, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News – Plastic bag use in England is on the rise.
Mr Gordon’s comment about plastic bags are less than 1% of landfill waste is intentionally misleading the reader, which is typical of a manufacturer. Plastic bags are the #1 item in landfills by the number of items that go to landfills. Go take a walk around a landfill and you’ll spend all day tripping over plastic bags. Trash inside a plastic bag is isolated from the rest of the landfill biodegradation which hinders landfill operations. We’d be better off not putting our trash in waterproof, non biodegradable bags.
If paper bags were used for those people who forget their reusable bags, it would be good for the pollution situation, & good for the environment.
Plastic bags ought to be banned. This is the only real way to solve this huge problem.
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