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? Which bags kill planet Earth faster – plastic or paper? – Russia
Posted on July 14, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsWhich bags kill planet Earth faster – plastic or paper? – English pravda.ru.
The research center of Superjob.ru recruitment portal wondered what common people think on the subject. It turned out that respondents (1,600 people from 230 settlements of the Russian Federation) mainly support the ban on plastic bags, although with some reservations.
According to the center, 49 percent of respondents approved of the idea to refuse from plastic in favor of paper and even shared their own recommendations on how to solve the problem of everlasting plastic bags.
For example, some said that large stores should take back empty cans, bottles and paper for recycling. One can ban both plastic bags and disposable dishes, others said.
PWS supports the plastic bag ban in Russia. (And everywhere else)
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