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? 
Ban on plastic bags makes sense – Boston
Posted on December 2, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Eagan: Ban on plastic bags makes sense | Boston Herald.
Personally, I stopped listening to the climate change deniers after Hurricane Sandy all but shut down Manhattan. Then days ago a new FEMA map said a similar storm would wipe out much of Cambridge, East Boston and the Back Bay while our new South Boston Innovation District would be innovating, alone, under the waters of Boston Harbor. I stopped trusting the live-free, let-the- market-rule crowd after “the market” kept sneaking killer trans fats into almost every processed food for two decades after we knew how bad the stuff is.
“We don’t need plastic bags.” No we don’t. Banning them once seemed the nutty idea of the holier-than-thou, know-it-all crunchy granola set. Now the nuts seem clustered on the other side, very angry nuts at that, screaming “Live free or die” and “Plastic bag bans kill jobs.” Where’s the evidence?
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