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? UPDATED: Lawsuits mount over Toronto bag ban
Posted on November 30, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsUPDATED: Lawsuits mount over Toronto bag ban | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.
This is a sad day for the people of Toronto to have their environment and their wild life jepordised for the sake of a few bag manufacturers. Manufacturers who make a product that we do not need.
We need to look at the real consequence of plastic bags and then either go back to charging for them, which lets people choose if they want a bag or not, or just ban them and people will move on to reusable bags. it is simple and does not need to be complicated by money hungry manufacturers who care less about their surronds and its people than they do for their pocket book.
A sad day indeed for Toronto.
Perhaps sanity will return when the mayor gets voted out and a mayor with intouch with the people will get elected.
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