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 party’s over for plastic straws – Australia
Posted on July 24, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic StrawsMore companies have pledged to stop using plastic straws
Source: The party’s over for plastic straws
“We need to avoid companies switching to ‘biodegradable’ or ‘compostable’ plastic straws,” he said. “There is a growing concern that these type of straws are just as bad in the marine environment as normal plastic straws.”
This is a must. Straw makers producing compostable PLA straws or oxodegradable straws should not be allowed to sell them at all. They are just as bad as plastic straws, or worse as people use them thinking they are better!
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