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? San Diego to consider plastic bag ban – News – Plastics News#email_sustain
Posted on November 3, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSan Diego to consider plastic bag ban – USA.
With a population of 1.3 million, San Diego is the largest city in California without a plastic bag ban, according to the environmental group Californians Against Waste.
The ban would apply to retail stores with annual sales of $2 million or more, drug stores and pharmacies. The proposal would also force stores to charge 10 cents for paper bags. The measure excludes restaurants, non-profit organizations and those on supplemental food programs wouldn’t be charged the 10 cents for bags.
Let us hope this bag ban goes through. With all the water ways around San Diego, banning plastic bags is so essential. Stores that trade over $2m are trading over $160,000 per month which for a small business is a very large turnover. This means there will be a large number of small businesses that will be exempt from the ban. However this ban would include most of the serious bag handing out businesses which is needed.
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