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? Say no to plastic bags – Philippines
Posted on May 19, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSay no to plastic bags – Tehran Times.
“The idea is to curb pollution and help the country manage its ecological resources more wisely. Plastic bags end up as litter as it makes its way to landfills, drainage and bodies of water, taking decades to decompose and damaging marine life when dumped in the sea,” said Legarda.
“This issue of pollution is further aggravated by natural hazards, which have become unpredictable due to climate change,” she said.
Government waste management experts had noted that plastics usually “clog waterways, spoil the landscape, and end up in landfills, where they may take 1,000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water.”
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