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? This August 15, no more plastic flags – India
Posted on June 19, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThis August 15, no more plastic flags – Pune – DNA.
Every Independence Day, we proudly salute the national flag. But after the function, we see the flags made of non-biodegradable plastic, lying strewn on the roads.
To prevent such insults to the national flag, the state government has banned the sale and use of national flags made of plastic, which are often found strewn on the roads after Independence Day, Republic Day and Maharashtra Day functions.
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