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? 
94% want national plastics recycling plan: new report reveals – Australia
Posted on June 17, 2026 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingCleanaway is progressing plans for Australia’s first large-scale advanced soft plastics recycling facility, in partnership with Viva Energy.
Source: 94% want national plastics recycling plan: new report reveals
The report also found that 94 per cent of surveyed Australians want one national plan with consistent plastics recycling rules across all states. Twenty-two per cent of these see brands and manufacturers as having a key role to play – reflecting a growing expectation that creating packaging and managing what happens to it should go hand in hand.
Additionally, 99 per cent of Australians support a circular economy model that keeps materials in use through resource recovery, recycling and reuse for all types of items.
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