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? Why you should ditch your makeup wipes
Posted on April 20, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThey’re the epitome of lazy beauty, but what harm are they doing to your skin – and the environment?
via Why you should ditch your makeup wipes.
But there’s a problem. Our global obsession with makeup wipes is clogging up our drains and choking our beaches. (Too many of us flush them down the loo and because they often contain plastic, they do not disintegrate like toilet paper.)
You just have to catch glimpse of that gross 10-tonne fatberg – a bus-sized lump of wet wipes and congealed cooking oil – to get the picture. Those things we use to keep us relatively clean and nice smelling during four-day festival benders and 14-hour flights where you’re fighting it out to use a tiny bathroom sink are seriously harming the environment.
Another item that should not be allowed on the shop shelves. They are dumped every where as litter and do not go away. Go back to paper wipes.
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