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 may be a positive for the planet – New Zealand
Posted on April 27, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAmong the plastic products to be outlawed are plastic plates, bowls, and cutlery, those ‘single-use’ unsealed plastic produce bags found in supermarkets’ fruit and veg sections, and ‘single-use’ plastic drinking straws.
Rather than prompting an outbreak of widespread whining, one imagines the country’s population will greet their phase-out with a collective cry of “good riddance to bad rubbish”
It is a good start. But those items are just a smal fraction of the plastic litter that is out there. We need to go futher and expect we will as people get used to these unnecessary items being removed. NZ needs a CDS in earnest.
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