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? UK company using handle-less plastic bags to avoid bag tax
Posted on February 1, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsUK company using handle-less plastic bags to avoid bag tax
Supermarket giant Tesco has claimed the number of single-use bags used by customers at its stores in England has fallen by 78 percent since the 5p bag levy came into effect.
Customers shopping on Tesco.com have also dramatically reduced the number of bags they use, with the number of online shoppers selecting ‘bagless’ deliveries increasing by nearly 50 percent.
The drop in bag use by customers in store is almost 10 percent higher than Tesco predicted before the bag levy was introduced.
Way to go UK. Still it is amazing at the intent of the new law is completely disregarded by some companies who obviously could care less for the environment they live in. Shame.
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