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? 
Clean Up Australia report shows plastic bag ban not curbing dumping
Posted on February 10, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsClean up Australia day is a national day where volunteers go out to clean up the country. Statistics are kept of the main types of litter found. Depending on number or items picked up or
the volume of items picked up, plastic bags, plastic bottles and cigarette butts generally are in the top three items. South Australia has a bottle refund scheme and a ban on plastic bags (thin grocery store type bags). While littered bottles are now rare in South Australia, it seems plastic bags still get dumped.
Clean Up Australia report shows plastic bag ban not curbing dumping | Adelaide Now.
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