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? Target to Celebrate Earth Day by Giving Away 1.5 Million Reusable Bags
Posted on April 17, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsTarget USA makes a sizable contribution to reducing plastic shopping bags. Now if we can get consumers to pay attention and take 5 seconds to plan ahead to take that reusable bag to their stores, and not thinking it is ok to take disposable bags all the time. Even though some consumers think they are doing good by reusing the disposable bags as bin liners, they are not. All they are doing is making the bag last 3 days instead of 1 before they dump it to a landfill. Their plan should be to use reusable shopping bags and get landfill-biodegradable bags for their bin liners. That way there is no plastic accumulating as waste anywhere.
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