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? 
Date revealed for Boylan Slat’s first Ocean Cleanup array launch – USA
Posted on August 2, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
It’s going to be a long journey, but Boylan Slat’s clean up effort is about to get going.
Source: Date revealed for Boylan Slat’s first Ocean Cleanup array launch
On September 8th, 2018, the 600 meter long Array 001 will make its way out from Alameda, under the Golden Gate Bridge, and out into the Pacific ocean. From there, it will undergo a couple of months of tow tests and trials in the Pacific, before being towed out to its final destination in The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
There, it will begin the job of collecting trash for removal and recycling—using its passive, energy neutral mode of operation to concentrate floating debris at the center of the array where vessels will periodically come by to collect the trash and bring it back to land. Along the way, because The Ocean Cleanup has opted for a modular, gradual launch, the first array will be able to provide important performance data to the team which can then use that data to tweak and improve designs before further arrays are launched.
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