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 Remains On Paper – India
Posted on May 19, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Ban On Plastic Bags Remains On Paper – Trivandrum News | Yentha.com.
“A shop keeper in one of the leading retail outlets in the city said, ‘We do not charge for plastic bags.” However, when Yentha drew his attention to the government ordinance which restrains shops from providing carry bags free of cost to customers, the manager replied that he was new to the job and did not know the rules.
“Everybody now stuffs waste in plastic carry bags and throw them on the roads. This will continue till the plastic carry bags and other non- biodegradable materials are prohibited. During the monsoon season these bags will create vector breeding space by choking drains and wetlands,” said Saraswathi from Peroorkada.
A city based Green Activist said that the ordinance would help check the menace caused by plastic bags. “Only a total prohibition will have some effect. A million plastic bags are being used every minute over the world. The annual global use of plastic bags is estimated to be one trillion. It is time to think about the harmful effects of this human activity.”
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