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? Queensland researchers hope sea turtles, birds will benefit from plastic ban – Australia
Posted on May 31, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsQueensland’s upcoming plastic bag ban is hoped to have a positive effect on endangered marine life and will be monitored by University of the Sunshine Coast researchers.
Source: Queensland researchers hope sea turtles, birds will benefit from plastic ban
“The approach myself and my team took was, what is causing the biggest impacts? What is causing the most harm, in particular to sea turtles, and the single-use plastic bags were coming out on top every single year,” she said.
She believes sea turtles are particularly attracted to plastic bags floating in the ocean because they look like jelly fish – a prize snack for sea turtles.
“One thing that links all sea turtles is they love jellyfish,” she said.
“It appears that the sea turtles … prefer clear and white plastic bags, which is the colours you’d get with the jellyfish.”
Similarly, sea birds dive-bombing for a red squid dinner can find themselves swallowing a burst balloon, which floats on the surface of the water looking very much like a tasty squid.
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