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? Time To Ban The Plastic Bag, Researchers Say – Australia
Posted on June 3, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Researchers at James Cook University are honing techniques to translate peoples’ concern for ecosystems like the Great Barrier Reef into individual action, as the threat posed by marine plastic pollution takes a leading role in the debate around our oceans’ health. The group has focused their efforts on single-use plastic bags, which represent a significant threat toMore
Source: Time To Ban The Plastic Bag, Researchers Say – New Matilda
It is hard to fathom in a democracy where overwhelming majority of people want to ban these bags, why the governments don’t listen. It simply means we don’t live in a democracy anymore.
All indications are that all these unnecessary single uses bags will be banned across the majour states soon so we wait with baited breath for that move. This will provide the oceans some relief from more bags no longer making it any worse than it is now.
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