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? US Needs National Strategy to Deal With Plastic, Report Says. This Sandhill Crane’s Injured Beak Shows Why – USA
Posted on December 6, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The report calls on the federal government to create a national strategy, by the end of 2022, to reduce the nation’s contribution of plastic waste to the environment.
Among the suggested interventions:
— Reduce plastic production, especially for plastics that are not reusable or practically recyclable. For example, establish a national cap on virgin plastic production.
— Encourage design innovation and the development of substitutes that degrade more quickly or can be more easily recycled or reused.
— Decrease the amount of waste generated by reducing the use of disposable plastic products. For example, ban specific products based on their toxicity or necessity.
“Such a strategy would enhance United States’ leadership in creating solutions to global plastic pollution and shaping modern industrial plastic policy,” the report stated.
For wildlife, those interventions can’t come soon enough.
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