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? 
Biodegradable straws replacing plastic in effort to cut back on litter
Posted on March 23, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Straws
From cokes to cocktails — there are a lot of options to choose from at The Hive in Downtown Augusta.
Source: Biodegradable straws replacing plastic in effort to cut back on litter
“I’ve worked in a restaurant, so the one thing that some people may want straws for is because you don’t know how clean or dirty the cups you’re drinking out of are,” said Caskey.
Straws like these are 100 percent decomposable. Manager Samantha Rockwood says the “Last Straw Challenge” — helps to keep downtown clean.
The article did not say where they biodegrade though. If it is a compostable plastic then this is not addressing the litter problem at all and is not addressing the biodegrading of straws either as most will be littered on the ground or sent to a landfill where they do not biodegrade.
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