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? Symphony: Public should not be deprived of plastic bags -UK
Posted on October 1, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPutting a surcharge on a plastic bag is a very good move to try to control the huge environmental damage these items do. It should be 10 cents or more to make people pay reasonable attention.
What is clear in this article that Symphony care more about selling more product for their own profits than they do about keeping the Thames clean. Even if their bags did break down in 2 years are we meant to accept littered plastic bags causing such an eyesore for 2 years is OK as they will break down into little piece of plastic and float down the Thames to the ocean is OK?
Why do they always say when the bag reaches the end of its ‘useful life’ if will fragment away. Symphony do not know the ‘useful life time’ on any ones bag. For some it may be 5 minutes then it is dumped but it takes another 2 years as litter before it breaks down somewhere? For others they may use if for much longer then it falls apart on them while still in use. Their ‘useful life’ claim is purely a marketing spin. There are much better ways they could promote their products.
A surcharge on a bag does not deny any one of anything. If a shopper really wants a bag they will take one still. Symphony should be ashamed of such a self serving response here.
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