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? Ryde Council bans balloons
Posted on June 2, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons
RYDE Mayor Bill Pickering has banned the release of balloons at parks and council events, but don’t call him a party pooper.
Source: Ryde Council bans balloons
RYDE Mayor Bill Pickering has banned the release of balloons at parks and council events, but don’t call him a party pooper.
Cr Pickering has introduced the policy due to concern about balloons, typically helium ones, being released into the atmosphere and later becoming litter.
These balloons may find their way into areas like waterways, where animals can swallow the plastic and suffer injury or death.
The article’s auther also mentioned that the balloon industry was going towards biodegradable balloons as though that was acceptable. it is not and the balloon industry know that. There are few microbes in the oceans to biodegrade a material down, so they last for many many months and are very dangerous to wildlife during that time. They need to all be banned in reality.
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