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Re: Plastic ban 'in place' but not enforced
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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04/21/2023 06:14 AM
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I always feel guilty throwing out the Styrofoam takeaway containers!! I still don't understand why some coffee shops use Styrofoam cups?? The coffee tastes nasty, you can't reheat the cups and it just wrong to use them! "IMHO"!
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Re: Plastic ban 'in place' but not enforced
[Re: lcote]
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04/21/2023 12:39 PM
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And weren't we just discussing the dumping of all that sargassum into plastic bags and then into the dump?
Yup.
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Re: Plastic ban 'in place' but not enforced
[Re: Bluesfan]
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04/21/2023 01:50 PM
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Bluesfan--glass is not recycled here in my county either. Literally the ONLY thing that is recycled here is aluminum cans.
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Re: Plastic ban 'in place' but not enforced
[Re: Zanshin]
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04/23/2023 08:05 AM
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Enforcement and implementation is going to take a very long time, one could feel the vibe in the article already.
This makes me thing of the BVI several years ago. They decided to make all BVI waters discharge-free; which meant that the black water tanks on all the boats (charter and private). They actually enacted the law regarding prohibiting dumping. To date, there is not a single pump-out facility in the BVI; originally they had dreams of pump-out boats in several locations. So there's now a law on the books but it cannot or won't be enforced because of commercial interests and inept planning. Sort of like this plastic ban; the infrastructure to replace plastic packaging isn't there yet. As of June 1, the French side is also supposed to be no discharge, but there's only 1 pumpout inconveniently located on the fuel dock at Fort Louis Marina.
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