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? Southampton considers ban on mylar balloons – UK
Posted on August 1, 2017 by DrRossH in BalloonsThe village of Southampton is considering banning the sale of mylar balloons.
Source: Southampton considers ban on mylar balloons
All balloons need to be banned. Saying the latex one are ‘degradable’ is being a bit naive. Latex will biodegrade when put in a microbe rich environment. Even then it takes considerable time. If they are let loose in the environment there are few microbes there so they will not be biodegraded away. They are just as dangerous as the mylar balloons. In our beach litter clean ups we find many balloons and their fragments.
One person asked “how do you deprive a little kid of a balloon?” Really? People need to be a bit more realistic. Is it the parent that wants the child to have a balloon or the child. If it is a helium filled balloon, the child will let it go. They don’t need balloons, get them another toy. Preferably not plastic either.
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