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 bags quickly forgotten in Hawaii
Posted on June 8, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: Plastic bags quickly forgotten in Hawaii | Plastics News
While taking a tour of the Kauai Coffee Co., I struck up a conversation with our friendly tour guide Chuck. He was retired, but worked part-time giving tours and helping out at the facility’s gift shop, handing back bags of coffee inside paper bags. I asked him if people ever ask for plastic bags.
“No,” he said. “I can’t remember anyone asking for a plastic bag.”
And this is what bag manufacturers have to fear when voters in California head to the polls in November to ultimately decide if a law to ban polyethylene bags will stand. It’s quite possible that once consumers stop receiving plastic bags, they’ll live life just like they did before them; not giving a single thought to them. And once more people travel to areas of bag bans, they’ll push for similar laws in their own states and communities (remember how quickly smoking bans spread across the country?).
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