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 tale of two beaches and their rubbish problem – Australia
Posted on July 7, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsTwo sandy stretches on opposite sides of the Port Phillip Bay illustrate the extent of the litter problem.
Source: A tale of two beaches and their rubbish problem
Across the bay from Rye, Port Melbourne resident Ross Headifen encounters a disturbing picture almost every day at his local beach.
When the southerly wind blows, clumps of seaweed that have trapped pieces of rubbish wash up on the shore, particularly in spring.
In 2011 the mechanical engineer began picking up trash with the local beach patrol group during monthly outings.
But in 2016 he and his wife Ramona decided to collect rubbish early every morning along a 45 metre stretch of Port Melbourne beach and document what they found.
In one year they gathered about 145,000 bits of litter on their morning walks on that one section of sand alone.
For the year, using wind weather data, it was predicted 550 million pieces of plastic would wash out of the whole Port Phillip Bay.
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