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? Summer of 2013 a busy time for plastic bag bans – USA
Posted on July 4, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSummer of 2013 a busy time for plastic bag bans – News – Plastics News.
As summer heats up across the country, so are efforts to rid communities of single use plastic shopping bags.
Across California bag bans and taxes continue to pile up following another failed attempt at a state-wide ban in the California state legislature, with Los Angeles drawing the biggest headlines. The second largest U.S. city, with a population of about 3.9 million, will bar single use thin film bags as of Jan. 1, 2014 and charge shoppers 10 cents for paper bags. The ban will kick off applying only to large grocery stores but will include smaller retailers as well, starting in June 2014.
Unincorporated Los Angeles County and a long list of municipalities within the county already had a bag bans of their own.
Given the size of California and the number of counties that have enacted bag bans, it only makes good sense fiscally and environmentally to have a state wide ban/charge put into place.
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