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 ban in Clark Air Force base – Philippines
Posted on January 25, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsIT’S a plastic-free Clark this 2016. This is after the Clark Development Corporation (CDC) issued a Memorandum Circular (MC) banning and/or regulating the use of plastics and Styrofoam on December 18 last year. The MC will take effect on April 21, the international celebration of Earth Day.
via Peña: Plastic ban in Clark.
For clarification, CDC is not banning all types of plastic. The MC zeroes in mainly on non-biodegradable plastic bags, commonly called ‘sando’ bags. Mineral water bottles and other plastic products are not covered. Plastic bags will still be allowed as primary packaging material for wet goods (i.e. meat products, fish).
Styrofoam on the other hand is not allowed to be used for food and drinks. This will definitely have an impact on the operation of fastfood restaurants and coffee shops. It is allowed to be used as insulator or other similar purposes. By the way, Styrofoam is a trade name of the Dow Chemical Company for housing insulation. The correct term for this material is polystyrene.
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