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 water bottle aims to reduce plastic litter, but could meet consumer resistance – UK
Posted on May 10, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
A British bottled water company wants to start selling water in a paper-based, plastic-free disposable bottle that breaks down within weeks when littered in the ocean or forest or dumped in a landfill.
James Longcroft started Choose Water two years ago. It bills itself as an ethical bottled water company that donates 100 per cent of its profits to charity. The charity, Water for Africa, drills and helps maintain and protect drinking water sources for communities in Africa.
“We realized quite quickly that we were not only contributing, but were the problem (by selling plastic water bottles) ,”
Charles Fishman, a U.S.-based water journalist and author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, said it’s a clever idea and has the attributes you’d want a container to have. But he’s not convinced anyone will buy it.
“One of the reasons that bottled water is so popular is it’s sold in this clear, beautiful bottle,” he said. “Just seeing it, you feel, ‘Wow, I’m thirsty and that’s what I want’.… The container is part of the marketing.”
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