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 pollution invades the last frontier
Posted on October 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifePlastic pollution invades the last frontier – The West Australian.
American oceanographer Charles Moore has labelled plastic pollution as a bigger problem than climate change, and one that must be fixed.
“It’s murderous to marine ecosystems. It is acting as both predator and prey. As predator it is tangling things up and killing them,” he said.
“We estimate just in the North Pacific alone 100,000 marine mammals are dying every year tangled up in this stuff.”
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