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? 
A lightweight plastic bottle is still a plastic bottle
Posted on November 28, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News Nestlé is set to launch what it claims will be the UK’s lightest-weight water bottles after a £35m investment in a new bottling plant in Buxton. Full Story
A water bottle by any name is still a water bottle. So Nestle have cut down the materials cost of their water bottles by 25%. As usual for manufacturers however, they do not talk about the disposal side of their products. This lightweight bottle will still take 100’s of years to break down. There is little logic in making a bottle that a consumer uses for a few minutes and then tosses way to last many 100’s of years. What are Nestle thinking of other than their own bottom line? Imagine how much more customers would favour them with their patronage if Nestle really did address the disposal side and came out with promotions of a recycling scheme that had very high bottle recycling rates or a bottle that was biodegradable -in-a-landfill. This is simply called sustainable, a word many corporations struggle with
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