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? 
Australia fury over plastic bag U-turn
Posted on August 1, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Social media users turn on supermarket giant Coles for ‘caving in’ to ‘tantrums’ over reusable bags.
Source: Australia fury over plastic bag U-turn
Well done @coles. What a terrible thing to do. Why did you do it? For a very small minority of people who can’t organise them selves enough to remember a reusable bag? Those are not the people you should be worried about, it is the vast majority who do shop at grocery stores looking for more sustainable ways. This is simply hard to believe that such a big company would act so badly in the public view.
Now we are going to find the red and white bags all over beaches and waterways thanks to you! Appalling.
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