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 statewide bans on plastic bags reduced beach pollution: analysis
Posted on September 10, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsStatewide bans on plastic bags in the United States have led to significant reductions in the number of bags found on beaches and waterways, according to a scientific analysis published Monday.
Source: US statewide bans on plastic bags reduced beach pollution: analysis
But since 2020, as the percentage of the US population covered by statewide bans has risen from 12 to 25 percent, there has been a 29 percent reduction in the number of bags collected per volunteer from 2022-23 compared to pre-pandemic levels (2013-2019).
“Plastic bags are well-known to be one of the most deadly types of plastic pollution in our oceans,” Anja Brandon, Ocean Conservancy’s director of plastics policy, told AFP.
“We were really excited to see that with the increase in percentage of Americans who are covered by a strong plastic bag ban, we see less plastic bag pollution within our ICC dataset,”
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