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? Statement From American Progressive Bag Alliance on Los Angeles City Council’s Vote to Ban Plastic Retail Bags
Posted on May 24, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe above is a press release from the plastic bag manufacturers council in the USA. It starts off with;
The Los Angeles City Council today voted to impose a draconian policy to ban plastic retail bags, a move that puts hundreds of Los Angeles area jobs at risk, without providing any benefit to the environment.
Draconian? How about progressive? How can the elimination of millions of plastic bags in a small area with respect to the size of California, not provide any benefit to the environment? It will provide immeasurable benefit to the environment. Have the manufacturer’s council members even taken a walk along a beach to see all the plastic waste on them? Have they not heard about plastic bags in the oceans or clogging landfills? We know everyone has heard this, but their desire for profits exceeds their (and our) care for the environment. And once again they drag out the “loss of jobs will bring down the economy’ argument. Why don’t they switch to making reusable bags and employ those people to do that? Could they be the ones to cause loss of jobs as they are too unwilling to change from a damaging product to a more benign product?
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