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? The Hindu : Thin plastic bags back in circulation
Posted on May 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsThe Hindu : Cities / Hyderabad : Thin plastic bags back in circulation.
“The ugly old plastic carry-bags are back in circulation. Be it fruit sellers or vegetable vendors, everyone these days is packing their wares in wafer-thin plastic bags. Less than a year after the GHMC prohibited the use of below 40 micron plastic bags, the ban seems to have gone for a toss.
Initially, the ban was enforced strictly with the result that even small retailers and push-cart vendors adhered to the specified thickness of bags. But over the last few months there is total slackness in implementation of the rule resulting in the thin bags making a comeback.”
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