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 plastic bag ban is not going to kill us. Here’s why Andrew Bolt is so wrong – Australia
Posted on December 9, 2018 by DrRossH in GeneralAccording to the columnist we are deluded if we think banning single-use bags is a good idea. These are the facts
Source: The plastic bag ban is not going to kill us. Here’s why Andrew Bolt is so wrong | Gay Alcorn
We are far from perfect (I bought a takeaway coffee in a disposable cup the other day – the guilt!), but once you start, you see plastic everywhere. The use of plastic has been widespread since the 1950s and it is a wonderful product. But its ubiquity, especially single-use plastic, has a high price: the litter of shopping bags, takeaway containers, plastic bottles and straws. We pay millions to clean it up, and our oceans have become a plastic tip.
When you start thinking about plastic, you start thinking about waste, about a culture that has emerged only in the last couple of generations: tossing out food every week (which would have horrified my grandmother), the business of fast turnover clothes destined for landfill, how it’s cheaper to buy something new than repair. You see single-use plastic everywhere: a sole cucumber enclosed in plastic, a cupcake served in a stiff plastic container, recycled toilet paper packaged in plastic.
According to News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt (on whose Sky News show, the Bolt Report, I appear regularly), I am a deluded fool. Woolworths banned single-use plastic shopping bags a week ago, and Coles and IGA will do the same from 1 July. That’s more than 5bn bags a year to be phased out – bags that have to go somewhere, as they can take hundreds of years to decompose.
All states except NSW and Victoria have banned these flimsy things, and Victoria has announced it will do by the end of next year.
Bolt says it’s “an essentially useless gesture” that won’t help the environment.
Another fine example showing how the right wing fanatics are wrong on most every account and are only trying to be shock jocks to get personal attention. They think that is more important than looking after the earth for the millions of people yet to come.
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