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? QLD Government Puts Plastic Bag Ban & CDS on Agenda – Tangaroa Blue Foundation
Posted on August 15, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsQLD Government Puts Plastic Bag Ban & CDS on Agenda – Tangaroa Blue Foundation.
As you may have heard the Queensland Government this week announced that they are considering banning plastic bags (and other problematic packaging). The decision comes on top of the announcement last month that they would investigate a container deposits (cash for containers) scheme for Queensland.
To show how out of touch the current govt is in Australia, after this announcement was made, the Liberal member came out with this foolish comment “the government should be focussing on jobs not reducing pollution!” We know people need sleep sometimes but these Liberal guys must be asleep all the time to have missed this whole discussion and how many jobs adding a CDS will contribute to the economy in Queensland.
Go Queensland and fix this pollution problem, crate the new jobs and support the civic groups that will benefit from this.
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