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? 
Careful with those helium balloons — a Perth council has just banned them
Posted on September 30, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons, Plastic Straws
Co
ttesloe Council becomes the first in WA to outlaw the release of gas-filled balloons into the sky, saying they end up harming marine life.
Source: Careful with those helium balloons — a Perth council has just banned them
Mr Chapple said mass balloon releases were a form of illegal dumping and should be treated as such by the law.
Cottesloe Mayor Jo Dawkins said evidence showed the remnants of balloons ended up harming marine life.
“The reasoning behind this was, there is environmental concerns, fish and birds and other animals are being found with the remnants of rubber and plastic in their bodies,” she said.
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