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? Proposal would ban balloons on Bainbridge Island – USA
Posted on September 6, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons
City Councilman floating new ordinance cites environmental concerns.
Source: Proposal would ban balloons on Bainbridge Island
The Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and “many other governmental and nongovernmental organizations warn that balloons can kill marine mammals, birds, and other wildlife by entanglement or ingestion,” Scott wrote in an introduction to the ordinance.
“The attached ordinance addresses this issue and will assure that these threats to marine and terrestrial wildlife will not originate from Bainbridge Island,” he wrote.
These balloons serve no real purpose but are of considerable harm to wildlife
Trash in the water, including balloons, affects more than 260 species worldwide, according to Ocean Conservancy, a national environmental advocacy group: “Animals, birds and fish get sick or choke when they eat balloon fragments and plastic valves and attachments. Many other marine animals drown when they get entangled in trailing ribbon or string.”
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